Proposal for Recycling Identifiers in OpenID 2.0

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Mon May 14 16:12:08 UTC 2007


The issue you bring up is a separate issue then the motivation for  
recycling identifiers by large OPs.

Your point is how does a user transfer from one identifier to another.

The issue at hand is the scarcity of namespace.

-- Dick

On 14-May-07, at 8:48 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> These seems to be an assumption on this thread that
> - identifiers at the same domain name get recycled often (e.g.  
> example.com/jim)
> - domain names don't get recycled often (e.g example.com itself)
>
> I would suggest that any proposed solution needs to be able to deal  
> with domain names as well that aren't being renewed, and picked up  
> by somebody else. Somebody who isn't necessarily continuing any  
> kind of naming scheme the previous owner had in place, or who is  
> actively hostile with respect to the previous owner.
>
> There's a whole industry out there recycling domain names -- which  
> proves that this is an issue.
>
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> Johannes Ernst
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