I've found the answer to these questions. The thing to do is have 4 link elements; two in the 1.x style, and two in the 2.0 style.

Also, the OP Endpoint URL is necessary because the OP-Local Identifier isn't necessarily a URL, it could be a user name …

Hello Hugo, you need to go to an OpenId provider such as:

http://www.myopenid.com/

and get an OpenId identifier. Then go to your id page (eg. id.example.com) and enter it in the box. That's it! Let me know if you have any more problems.

In fact …

Hi,
I just tried own-id.com, but didn't get very far. I added the CNAME but was prompted to 'enter the OpenId you got from your provider.' I have no clue what to do from here, so I tried with my email address giving a 1537 fatal transport error, then …

The OpenId 2.0 specification is intended to be backwards compatible. However in the latest draft (12), the recommended markup for HTML discovery gives the 'rel' attribute in the 'link' element the values 'openid2.provider openid.server' and 'openid2.local_id openid.delegate'. In OpenId 1.x the values for 'rel' …

I looked it up and you're right! Bath Spa is managed by First Great Western. I could have sworn they said Southwest Trains. Ah well...

But...

South West Trains don't operate Bath Spa station.

There's a new version of OwnId:

• No password to remember, authentication is done with OpenId.
• Now supports version 2 of OpenId.

We've now got 3 users, including me!

I always look forward to Willem Buiter's posts, and his latest, on a common tax rate on all forms of capital income is absolutely spot on. In fact I've added it to my manifesto.

I especially like the added justification on the end:

[stop the] privately profitable but socially unproductive …

It was uncanny the way that every scene was exactly as I had imagined it when reading the book. Very moving, I was embarassed to be tearful several times during the film. The theme of typing, cleverly hinted at the fact that this was Briony's narrative. This device ran the …

We've got a new domain name, and redesigned the site for http://www.own-id.com/. We're sort of trying it out at the moment, so let me know what you think.