[OpenID] Identity in the browser - IDIB

[Dick Hardt]

On 8-Aug-08, at 8:19 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:
>
> It seems to me that any extension doing this sort of thing (so  
> consider this a wishlist item for IDIB) should accept an XRI or URI  
> that the user is already using as his/her identifier, perform  
> discovery on that, and read the XRDS file and set up all the  
> Providers automatically.

Millions of people have an OpenID today, they just don't know it.

Having the extension detect that the site I am on could be an OP would  
be more interesting.

Note that knowledge of the identifier is really not critical to the  
protocol -- knowledge of your OP is.

The user not needing to know their identifier(s) can dramaticly simply  
the user experience, which is another conclusion to be drawn from Tom  
Calthrop's post on http://www.barnraiser.org/


-- Dick
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