Questions about IIW Identifier Recycling Table

Josh Hoyt josh at janrain.com
Fri Jun 8 17:37:55 UTC 2007


On 6/8/07, Recordon, David <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:
> The difference I see is that the current secrets can be renegotiated.
> If we're working with non-public fragments then they cannot be.  If
> we're working with public fragments, then I'm less concerned.

I understand your concern, but I don't share it. There will be times
that secrets are lost, but I think that the benefit of protecting
users from identifier loss is more important than the cost of
requiring a reliable provider.

Josh



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