[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[John]

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On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Eric Norman <ejnorman at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:

>
> 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?

No.  Is a spof for your blog commenting needs a problem?
>
>
>> -          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
>
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