[OpenID] OpenID, P2P and decentralization

[Recordon, David]

Agreed, if you're using a public identifier then what is the harm.

I'd also have no problem giving someone your email address,
paulmadsen at rogers.com, since you've made it a public identifier by
posting to publicly archived mailing list.  Same would apply for
something like Ben Laurie's phone number since he posts it publicly at
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html.

Now if you've shared an identifier with me which you don't use in a
public fashion, then I would respect that and not share it.

So same thing with an OpenID URL or iname.  If it is being used publicly
http://davidrecordon.com or =kaliya then I don't see why it being
referenced in a public fashion is a bad thing.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Carl Howells
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:37 AM
To: Paul Madsen
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] OpenID, P2P and decentralization

(Sorry for the double-email Paul, I forgot how this list is set up.)

Because an OpenID isn't private information?  The whole *point* of the
system is that it's a public-facing identifier.

Carl

Paul Madsen wrote:
 > David, you wouldn't give out my email, my home address, my SIN, or my
phone number without asking yourself whether I might object, why should
an OpenID be different?
 >
 > paul
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