[OpenID] OpenId downtime

Martin Fick mogulguy at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 8 05:45:50 UTC 2007


--- Sakimura Nat <n-sakimura at nri.co.jp> wrote:
> In XRDS, you can specify multiple service end
> points with different priority, including OpenID
> authentication.

Yes, but where does the XRDS reside, on a web page?
If I host my own web page with an XRDS specification
from my openids and this server goes down, I am 
still SOL, not?  I think that you have just shifted
the single point of failure from the openid to the
XRDS host?

-Martin



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