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

[Fen Labalme]

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

Of the suggested ways to "lock in your ID" I think inames is the only truly
viable one.  Buying a domain name is renting access under regulations and laws
out of your control.  Using myopenid.com works perhaps until myopenid.com is
bought by (say) Microsoft (and again, the domain could be removed at any
time).  Only control of the unique inumber (which could be based on Freenet
DHTs as easily as on DNS) offers the non-subvertible persistent identity
desired by anyone seeking complete freedom from authority.

I'm not sure many of us have such idealistic desires, but I strongly feel that
a viable global identity system should support one's right to choose such
freedoms should they wish to go to the extra work required to make it so.
(And if enough people chose such freedoms, the "extra work" would lessen...)

After all, it's supposed to be "user centric", not "ICANN-centric"...

=Fen

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