IDMML (was RE: Using email address as OpenID identifier)

[Drummond Reed]

> >> George Fletcher wrote:
> >>
> >> I think relying party sites that support OpenID could do more to make
> it
> >> clear on their home pages that they support OpenID (as often it's
> hidden
> >> behind another click). This could be as simple as some <link> tags that
> >> advertise support for OpenID. Maybe a <link> to the XRDS doc describing
> >> the services of the site. Then the identity agent can discover the
> >> relying party OpenID return_to endpoint and log the user in directly.
> >> Can be used to solve a phishing problem and makes the experience easy
> >> for the user.
> >>
> >> Some related thoughts ....
> >>    http://practicalid.blogspot.com/2007/06/clients-to-rescue.html
> >>
> >> http://practicalid.blogspot.com/2007/06/passive-identity-meta-system-
> >> markup.html
> >>
> > Drummond wrote:
> > George, I read your two posts with great interest...and then noticed
> that
> > they were last summer!
> >
> > You are a man ahead of your time.
> >
> > Where has discussion of your "IDMML" gone since your posts?
> >
> George wrote:
> Unfortunately, not as far as I'd like :(  I've not been able to get back
> to the ideas and take them farther. With the other things that have
> happened in the last 6 months there are needed revisions. Maybe this
> could be a discussion at IIW (if there is enough interest)?
> 
> At the time there was less consensus around XRDS as a service
> "description/meta-data" markup. With that changing, the time is better
> to move this forward. I suspect there are significant synergies with
> what Peter hinted at in the work with XRDS, IDP Discovery, and SAML. It
> would be great if identity agents could be the glue that binds the
> different identity systems together for the user (until we on the
> technology side get closer to real convergence:).

George, I agree that several things have evolved which could make an IDMML
practical now. Seems like a very good topic for IIW. I just put it on the
list of proposed sessions:

	http://iiw.idcommons.net/index.php/Proposed_Topics_2008a 

=Drummond