[mdx] MDQ questions

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk> wrote:
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> Speaking as someone who would be a deployer of this technology, I really can't see any likelihood that I'd want to deploy something that supported arbitrary queries.

Yes, this has been discussed and everyone agrees but this isn't what
you asked before.

> I can see the need to address specific use cases such as "give me the JSON metadata for all discoverable IdPs" but an arbitrary identifier is sufficient for the ones I can think of.

Not if you're trying to define a query language, but evidently that is
not the goal.

FWIW, I support a single identifier and I agree with you that we'll
probably get a lot of mileage out of that simple syntax.

Tom