[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Sakimura Nat]

In XRDS, you can specify multiple service end points with different priority, including OpenID authentication. Thus, if one of your OpenID server goes down, it can certainly go to the next one to get the authentication. Thus, unless all the OpenID authentication services specified in the XRDS goes down, you still are going to be authenticated.

=nat

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差出人: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] は Martin Fick [mogulguy at yahoo.com] の代理
送信日時: 2007年12月7日 14:33
宛先: Kevin Turner; general at openid.net
件名: Re: [OpenID] OpenId downtime

--- 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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