[OpenID] Rule of thumb

John Wang jwanggroups at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 17:53:27 UTC 2007


On 7/12/07, Simon Willison <simon at simonwillison.net> wrote:
>
> On 7/12/07, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com> wrote:
> > I keep reading over and over again that only end-users (i.e. the
> > students) select their OP; and can migrate it to various providers, at
> > their whim. Or, register it with several providers -- in OpenID2.
> >
> > Isn't the concept of OpenID (user-centric id) contradictory with the
> > notion that one has an "institutionally-provided OpenID"?
>
> I don't think so at all, for a bunch of reasons


I can see many larger RPs issuing their own institutional-provided OpenIDs,
especially when they have some in-person verification in place already.

I don't see a contradiction with having a few


-- 
John Wang
http://www.dev411.com/blog/
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