[OpenID] My answers to the nominee questions

[SitG Admin]

>I don't think it ruins the portability. As long as there is a 
>standard for requesting that the user send to their friends on the 
>IDP, then it's still cross-platform.

The portability aspect of OpenID is supposed to be "If your OP goes 
down or you don't like them any more, switch to another." - making 
the OP responsible for all this would put too much power into the 
hands of that RP, to accept or refuse arbitrary connections.

>I'm not sure I understand how it would work for Monster.com to 
>contact any participating RP,

Let the OP at Monster.com (even if it exists only for this purpose!) 
transfer AX to the effect of "This account is an official 
representative of the RP, and should be not be treated as just 
another user." (perhaps something like this could even be put into 
the PAPE spec).

>but I'd love to follow up on the idea.

Here's the expanded model I wrote of before:
http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2008-July/005148.html
I'd love to see Facebook become a Relying Party, if only for that 
messaging capability from users outside Facebook to users inside :)

I was reading a commentary recently on web design which said that the 
more you send users away, the more they'll come back. In other words, 
make your site THE place to find out about other interesting things 
on the web, and they'll keep on coming back there just to find out 
what else may be new. Then your Facebook users go out and evangelize 
for you, on other sites, just by telling their new friends "Hey, if 
you come over to Facebook, we can share *so* much more."

-Shade