[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[André Luís]

Oh.. I hadn't thought of that. *smacks forehead*  Well said... We
would be just moving the single point of failure elsewhere.

Damn.

--
André

On Dec 6, 2007 7:11 PM, Pat Patterson <Andrew.Patterson at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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> >>
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> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> Dominick Accattato, CTO
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