[OpenID] OpenId downtime

[Tony Locke]

I've tried to make delegation easy by putting up
http://www.own-id.com/, it lets you use your own domain name as an
OpenId Identifier.

It's not quite 'turtles all the way down' because if Own-Id goes down
or out of business, you can easily sign up to a competitor site. It
does rely on DNS working, but then so does everything on the web.

-Tony.

???: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] ? Pat
Patterson [Andrew.Patterson at Sun.COM] ???
????: 2007?12?7? 4:11
??: Andr? Lu?s
CC: general at openid.net
??: Re: [OpenID] OpenId downtime

The average joe doesn't have his own web page. Of those that do, I
suspect a very small minority would be prepared to edit HTML.

Of course, some delegation provider could make it very easy to do
this, entering your OP details in a form, generating HTML for you etc.
But when that provider goes down or out of business...

"It's turtles all the way down." -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

Cheers,

Pat