Draft OpenID 2.x User Experience working group charter

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 16:31:05 UTC 2010


On 2010-06-02, at 9:22 AM, jDavid wrote:

> no, but if i tell my grandma, mom, brother or dad that the relying party is going to do something with her data, what is she to assume?

Well, I would be telling them specific sites and not use the term relying party. Similarly I would not be using the term OpenID Provider.

> 
> it's not a good noun.  social app is better but i am sure it's not the best.

Do you think that we should only use OpenID for social apps?

>  let's just try to find something meaningful.  i also think relying party makes more sense with browser redirects, than with how OpenID could work.

If the OP is a server, I don't see how you get away from redirects. I also don't understand why you think that makes more sense.

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> 3rd party site would be a more commonly used noun set. 

Who is the 1st and 2nd party?



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