OpenID Profiles and Attribute Exchange

[Julian Bond]

OpenID Providers should make your OpenID URL a rich profile page and 
encourage you to use it as your Master Profile.
vs
Your Master Profile page should include discovery links to your OpenID 
so that you can quote it's URL when using OpenID.

Are those two incompatible? Or just different reflections of the same 
thing?

I wonder if there's a layer of indirection missing in the second 
scenario. A way of telling the OpenID provider that your mastre profile 
is over there. So when Attribute Exchange is invoked it either passes 
back the source of the data or gets a local cached copy to be served up 
in AX.

I'm concerned that a small scale provider like MyOpenID is going to end 
up having to implement a Plaxo or Facebook like Profile Maintenance 
system.

Also interesting here is Yahoo actively discouraging you from using your 
Yahoo Profile as your OpenID URL.

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