[OpenID] Identity in the browser - IDIB

[Andrew Arnott]

I agree, which is why that Identifier that IDIB allows the user to input
should be allowed to be an OP Identifier as well as the ordinary
claimed/delegate identifier.  Whatever the user types into this IDIB plugin
should be discovered and the plugin initialized using those settings.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com> wrote:

>
> 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/ <http://www.barnraiser.org/>
>
>
> -- Dick
>
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