[OpenID] Opt out of Yahoo OpenID?

[Dick Hardt]

On 18-Jan-08, at 9:02 PM, Peter Williams wrote:

> http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2006-February/002138.html  
> does indeed provide context. It says the then skip does idp- 
> initiated sso with persistent nameid name format conversion, per  
> sp. It also implies that openid2 can do more typical sp-initiated  
> websso with -implied- nameformat=persistent  request, causing the  
> op to mask ppi in the openid.
>
> Yahoo are apparently doing the latter - where the masking is for a  
> common sp affiliation set rather than the initiating sp, where set  
> is all RPs, as it happens.
>
>  As directed identity is not a standardized term, and yahoo are  
> using std protocol elements to invoke the user selecton of openid  
> for a given rp, they are entitled to use the term directed  
> identity, I find.

Over on the Identity Gang list and in Kim's Laws of Identity[1] the  
term Directed Identity does have a standard definition.


[1] http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/thelaws.html
	see Law 4

-- Dick