[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Pat Patterson]

The average joe doesn't have his own web page. Of those that do, I  
suspect a very small minority would be prepared to edit HTML.

Of course, some delegation provider could make it very easy to do  
this, entering your OP details in a form, generating HTML for you etc.  
But when that provider goes down or out of business...

"It's turtles all the way down." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

Cheers,

Pat

On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:03 AM, André Luís wrote:

> How about - really - promoting delegation? I, for one, use my website
> as openid url. If myopenid.com is down, i go there, change my OP and
> still login with id.andr3.net
>
> I don't see this as a challenging concept for the average joe, if
> properly explained and made easy for them to switch providers.
>
> Is there any security risk in something like this?
>
> --
> André Luís
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2007 6:57 PM, Dominick Accattato <daccattato at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Another approach although left up to the authenticating site would  
>> be for a
>> temporary account where the temporary username/password is sent to  
>> the users
>> email address during downtime.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2007 1:53 PM, Dick Hardt < dick at sxip.com> wrote:
>>> That would be one approach, but I can see it being very challenging
>>> for your average user to manage.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6-Dec-07, at 10:10 AM, André Luís wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's why I believe it's a good practice for each user to have  
>>>> more
>>>> than one provider and the consumer services allow to register more
>>>> than one OpenID address for each of their account.
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to the list, so pardon if any of this have been argued
>>>> against.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> André Luís
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 6, 2007 5:47 PM, Dominick Accattato < daccattato at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> What happens when an OpenId provider is down:
>>>>> http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/blog/2007/09/disadvantage-of-
>>>>> openid-and-web-services.html
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dominick Accattato, CTO
>>>>> Infrared5 Inc.
>>>>> www.infrared5.com
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>>
>> Dominick Accattato, CTO
>> Infrared5 Inc.
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