[OpenID] OpenID Description?

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A great and very comprehensive overview on OpenID has been posted on
consumingexperience.com:
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2006/12/openid-introduction.html

Carsten

On 4/17/08, Stephen Edgar <stephen at netweb.com.au> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Drummond,
>
> I will forward this to Roger
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stephen Edgar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed at cordance.net]
> Sent: Friday, 18 April 2008 5:01 AM
> To: Stephen Edgar; 'openid-general List'
> Subject: RE: [OpenID] OpenID Description?
>
> Stephen,
>
> Unfortunately, as much as you would expect http://openid.org to represent
> the OpenID Foundation, it does not (the owners said they wanted to donate
> the domain to the OpenID Foundation but they did not). The official OpenID
> Foundation site is at http://openid.net/. I'm sincerely hoping that the
> information you find there is not "sales blarney".
>
> Second, the fourth assumption on your bullet list below - "the intention
> that each person have only one id" - is definitely not true. A key feature
> of OpenID 2.0 is widely referred to as "directed identity" after Kim
> Cameron's Fourth Law of Identity
> (http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2005/05/13/TheLawsOfIdentity.pdf). This
> feature allows a user to login to a relying party (RP) with the identifier
> of their OpenID Provider (OP) rather than their own identifier, and for the
> OP to generate a pairwise unique OpenID identifier for the user at that
> particular RP.
>
> If you want a deeper analysis of that feature, plus other privacy-related
> features of OpenID, one reference is a paper on OpenID discovery I gave last
> month at the IDtrust Symposium:
>
>
> http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2008/papers/01-reed-openid-xri-xrds.
> pdf
>
> George Fletcher of AOL also gave another OpenID paper there:
>
>
> http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2008/slides/11-fletcher-openid.pdf
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> =Drummond
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> > Behalf Of Stephen Edgar
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 2:38 AM
> > To: openid-general List
> > Subject: [OpenID] OpenID Description?
> >
> > Hi OpenID List!
> >
> > This is my first post to the list and I am not bad myself on understanding
> > OpenID and some implementations on the tech front though I received via
> > another mail list the following and was hoping someone could point me to
> > some articles/links to address the following:-
> >
> > <snip>
> > Can anyone point to an accessible description of OpenID?
> >
> > Like a lot of open source, the sites and the documentation are very
> > much by-geeks/for-geeks.
> >
> > I suspect that it's just a latter-day MS Passport, but with:
> > -   open specs
> > -   more adopters (among corporations, if not among people)
> > -   the scope for stronger linkage between the id and the entity
> > -   the intention that each person have only one id
> >
> > But I'd welcome any leads to a description or analysis somewhere
> > between the sales blarney at:  http://www.openid.org/
> > and the highly segmented and detailed (and of course necessary)
> > tech-speak at:  http://openid.net/developers/specs/
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Roger Clarke                  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/
> > Visiting Professor in Info Science & Eng  Australian National University
> > Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program      University of Hong Kong
> > Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre      Uni of NSW
> > </snip>
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stephen Edgar
> > Stephen at netweb.com.au
> >
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