Do We Agree on the Problem We're Trying to Solve?

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Tue Jun 12 07:21:11 UTC 2007


Josh Hoyt wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
>> Presumably the recommendation would be to have several identifiers
>> attached to a single account just as is recommended today. I would point
>> most of my identifiers at one canonical identifier but retain one or
>> more special "backup identifiers" that do not point at my "persistent"
>> identifier so that I can reclaim my account if my persistent identifier
>> goes away.
> 
> Why bother with a canonical identifier if you're going to need
> multiple identifiers attached to an account anyway?

Why bother using OpenID if you need to have multiple identifiers 
attached to your account anyway?





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