[OpenID] Recycling OpenIDs (Was: What's broken in OpenID 2.0? (IIW session))

[Stephen Paul Weber]

I agree with this.  There are ways to lock in your ID if you wish (domain
name, i-name, AOL offering, myopenid.com) -- if you do not wish, or do not
care, that's your problem, not the protocol's :)

On 6/9/07, Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-12-05 at 23:17 +0200, Dmitry Shechtman wrote:
>
> > 1. OpenID needs canonical IDs (duh!).
>
> I strongly disagree with this.
>
> I think OpenID works great as a loose confederation of identity
> providers which have their own rules for allocating or re-allocating
> identifiers.
>
> If relying parties require some high level of authentication, we have
> ways to specify that.
>
> If anyone wants a canonical ID, they should use the i-names system,
> already supported by OpenID.
>
> I think this whole recycling-IDs issue is wrongheaded and broken.
>
> Hands off my IdP!
>
> -Evan
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>
>
>


-- 
- Stephen Paul Weber, Amateur Writer
<http://www.awriterz.org>

MSN/GTalk/Jabber: singpolyma at gmail.com
ICQ/AIM: 103332966
BLOG: http://singpolyma.net/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/attachments/20070609/e6729026/attachment-0001.htm>