Proposal for Recycling Identifiers in OpenID 2.0

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Mon May 14 17:57:01 UTC 2007


I believe that if we solve the "domain" issue -- which definitely  
needs solving -- we automatically also have solved the "within  
domain" issue, in which case no separate solution for the "within  
domain" issue is needed and may actually be counter-productive.


On May 14, 2007, at 10:29, Dick Hardt wrote:

>
> On 14-May-07, at 10:10 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 14, 2007, at 9:12, Dick Hardt wrote:
>>
>>> The issue you bring up is a separate issue then the motivation for
>>> recycling identifiers by large OPs.
>>
>> What I'm saying is a superset of the issue discussed so far that
>> ought to use the same technical solution because the problem is the
>> same: "X used identifier Y, and now Z controls Y. What now?"
>>
>>
>>> Your point is how does a user transfer from one identifier to
>>> another.
>>
>> While related, that's not the issue I was talking about.
>>
>> But you are right in that all of those problems should be solved at
>> the same time.
>
> I'm not saying they should all be solved at the same time.
>
> I think they are different problems and can be solved in different  
> ways.
>
> -- Dick
>
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