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VeriSign OpenID 1.1 Non-Assertion Covenant (via) VeriSign join Sun Microsystems in providing patent protection for OpenID.
In the verisign page, links at the end targets to OpenID Specifications but Yadis Specs too.
Do you know what Yadis is ? Seems to be a similar system to OpenID, true ? What do you think of it ?
Of course, it is good news to see Verisign to support and provide OpenID.
Yadis is part of the proposed OpenID 2.0 specification - it offers an alternative to the <link rel="openid.server"> tag used in OpenID 1.1, and allows an OpenID to be resolved to an XML document (in XRDS format) that describes services associated with that OpenID. The biggest practical benefit is that it can list a fallback identity server should the first one in the list be unavailable, although I'm not sure how many OpenID implementations actually support this yet.