Delegation discussion summary

Josh Hoyt josh at janrain.com
Fri Oct 13 03:55:32 UTC 2006


On 10/12/06, Marius Scurtescu <marius at sxip.com> wrote:
> The protocol does not need to touch on IdP-specific identifiers (aka
> delegated identifiers) at all IMO.

If there is a specified mechanism that must be supported for using a
portable identifier, all IdPs will support it, so identifiers will
actually be portable. You'd have a very difficult time trying to get
people here to remove portable identifier support from the OpenID
protocol.

Josh



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