PROPOSAL: rename Identity Provider to OpenID Provider

[Dick Hardt]

On 19-Oct-06, at 9:55 AM, Granqvist, Hans wrote:

> -1
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> "OpenID provider" is too vague and makes little sense. What
> is provided?  OpenID?  How do you provide a specification?

The OpenID. The thing that iwantmyopenid.com is working to give the  
user!

If you have a different, generic name for the identifier, then we  
could use that.

>
> Or...
>
> If I am a browser with built in OpenID 2.0 authn support,
> am I then not 'providing OpenID' to the user, so in effect
> I am too an "OpenID provider", but now as a client?

yes, exactly