[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Martin Fick]

--- Kevin Turner <kevin at janrain.com> wrote:
> In summary: Those high availability techniques you
> mentioned?  (backup power, redundant uplinks, live
> failover servers) Those are good.  Use
> those.  DNS is not a failover mechanism.

Sounds fine for a high end provider, not for 
joe home user.  But this seems like it goes
against the whole notion of independence that
openid is supposed to provide.  If I accepted
being completely reliant on a large provider
to manage my identity why wouldn't I just use
one of the large centralized identity 
solutions, especially since those solutions 
will probably pay more attention to 
availability since they understand that they 
are critical.  I doubt that you can say the 
same about most openid providers (I'll admit
that this will probably change if openid
becomes more prominent).

Perhaps I should simply accept that openid 
is only meant for unimportant services?
Services which I can live without being 
able to access if my provider simply 
goes down, or worse goes under?

-Martin



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