[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Sakimura Nat]

I was going back my email from recent date... So, as expected, Gabe was sending comment before me :-)

Now, this problem of halfway-down is pretty bad.

I feel like it is a good practice for an OpenID authentication provider always to have a button that return error so that the RP can go to the next authentication provider.

Since, this "Always-error-url" should return the "error" regardress of the accounts, it should be pretty straight forward to check the health of this "fail-over-mechanism", thus this service probably is going to be quite stable.

=nat

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送信日時: 2007年12月7日 5:25
宛先: 'Martin Fick'; 'Dominick Accattato'; general at openid.net
件名: Re: [OpenID] OpenId downtime

The XRD descriptor allows listing of multiple OpenID providers - for just
this (and other) reasons.

Regardless of the mechanism, I don't know how current implementations do
"fallback" - it's not clear how an RP would detect that an OP like
myopenid.com is "down". For example, in the example given, the auth page
loads just fine - it's "administratively" down, but still reachable by a
browser...

        -Gabe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Martin Fick
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:09 PM
> To: Dominick Accattato; general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] OpenId downtime
>
> --- 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
>
> Hmm, this is why I just joined this list, to see if
> there is a good answer for that question?  There is no
> way I am going to commit to a single point of failure
> for all of my services, even if I control it!
>
> Has there been any thought of using DNS records in
> a similar fashion to MX records for email to provide
> a backup openid service?  This way I can run my own
> service but have the OX, Openid Records,:) point to an
>
> alternate provider if my service is down.
>
> -Martin
>
>
>
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