[OpenID] OpenID consumers should make it clear if they are going to publish a user's OpenID

[Chris Messina]

On 5/13/07, Dmitry Shechtman <damnian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Correct. But given Simon's proposal, if we allow people to opt out
> > from the public display of their OpenID URL, what value should we use
> > instead?
>
> Not having to register.

By "value" I mean what "nickname".

> > And, to your previous point about a nickname that has only to be
> > unique to one site, we end up getting back into choosing unique
> > usernames all over again. I thought that that was something that we
> > would want to avoid?
>
> It is. What's wrong with getting the nickname from SR?

If there is no nickname provided by SR -- or if said nickname overlaps
with an existing nickname on the system, then you've lost the ability
to uniquely identify members in the system (i.e. two users might have
colliding nicknames from their respective SRs).

Chris

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