[OpenID] OpenID Attributes and YADIS Discovery

[Dick Hardt]

Good questions Ben.

*if* multiple OPs becomes popular, I would imagine that there will be  
a method to synchronize attributes between OPs.

-- Dick

On 11-May-07, at 5:53 PM, Ben Bangert wrote:

> I'm looking at using OpenID attributes, and am wondering what the  
> policy
> is (or should be) regarding searching multiple OpenID sites listed  
> in a
> YADIS file for attributes. Several questions occur to me:
> 1) If you change the priority of OP's in your YADIS file, should an OP
> be expected to provide an export functionality so that the attributes
> can be moved to the primary OP?
>
> 2) If an RP ends up using a fallback OP, and it has older attributes,
> how should that be handled?
>
> As long as its possible for someone to specify multiple OP's that  
> may be
> used, I'm not sure how a RP can reliably fetch/store attributes  
> with any
> expectation that they'll be available on the next login for a given
> identity.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
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