[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Eric Norman]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Ashish Jain wrote:

> One chain of thought was
> -          Encourage users to get multiple OpenIDs
> -          RPs should allow the users to attach multiple OpenIDs to 
> the same user account.

This assumes that the RP maintains an "account" for the user.
This may not always be the case.  For instance, does every
blog that I comment on using my OpenID maintain an account
for me?

> -          RPs should allow the users to pick the primary and 
> secondary OP (contacting secondary only if the primary is down).

In any case, it does put a burden on the user to cope with
an infrastructure reliability problem.  It might not be
very attractive for that reason.
 
> This doesn’t completely eliminate the issues around usability but at 
> least the user will be able to log in.

I'm tempted to change "doesn't completely eliminate" to
"compounds".

Eric Norman