[OpenID] Can one use Generic OpenIds

[Eve L. Maler]

Just to be crystal-clear, the Sun construct is based on accessing 
our OpenID authentication service, not necessarily on the particular 
form of the identifier.  If you want to use your own arbitrary 
OpenID and delegate over, the assurance still applies.  This notion 
of a "generic" OpenID as expressed by Peter seems a bit different, 
and closer (strictly speaking) to Drummond's "semantically 
meaningful identifiers" than the Sun case is:

http://www.equalsdrummond.name/?p=104

	Eve

Dave Kearns wrote:
> From: David Fuelling
>> Only a few weeks ago, when Sun announced that all of their employees would
>> have OpenId's (and by proxy, all of these employees could identifi
>> themselves as sun employees using these ids) there was a lot of discussion
>> (around the web) relating to why this is a bad idea.  Might be worth
>> searching around for some of the reaction to the Sun announcement
>> (I can't think of a direct url link at the moment).
>>
> 
> There was much chest-thumping on this list, but many of the outside comments
> I read were similar to mine
> <http://vquill.com/2007/05/at-last-real-work-for-openid.html>, that - absent
> any agreement on AX - this wasn't a particularly bad idea at all.
> 
> Still, the Sun construct is based on the domain issuing the OpenID, whereas
> this new proposal bases the deduction on the more ephemeral part of the URL,
> which would be difficult to keep secure with any sort of group access.
> 
> -dave
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