Consolidated Delegate Proposal

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Tue Oct 10 18:48:21 UTC 2006


Drummond Reed wrote:
>>
>> I was supportive of keeping the delegate from the IdP until I  
>> realized that the delegation was public knowledge and could not be  
>> hidden from the IdP.
> 
> The same argument convinced me, too. If public XRDS documents are what we're
> using to provide user control of identifier synonyms and thus provide
> identifier portability -- which is the clearest and cleanest approach we've
> seen -- then the best thing we can do from a privacy perspective is not
> mislead users that they are protecting their privacy by using a "public"
> OpenID identifier and a "private" identifier with their IdP.
> 

Fair enough. I'm convinced.




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