[OpenID] Purpose of OpenID Foundation and the Elections

[Pat Cappelaere]

If you pull out something that says VISA, clerk rings it up, you walk  
out with merchandise but store does not get paid (because it was not  
really a true VISA), what do you think would happen?

Pat.

On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Jack Cleaver wrote:
>> Martin Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>> There is in fact a way to distingish an OpenID URL (or email  
>>> address,
>>> or XRI) from a vanilla one: discovery.
>>>
>>> The very same mechanism that allows consumers to find the OpenID
>>> provider for an identifier implicitly answers the question "Is this
>>> an OpenID identifier?".
>>>
>>> If discovery fails, the URL you're holding is not an OpenID
>>> identifier.
>>
>> Yeah, I knew that!
>>
>> But it doesn't much help the "AMEX rejected here" crowd, who don't
>> happen to possess an OpenID protocol handler (if they did, they could
>> accept OpenID).
>>
>
> So I guess the situation you're thinking of goes something along these
> lines:
>
>  * I walk up to the checkout in a store with my items.
>  * Checkout clerk rings it up.
>  * I hand over my credit card.
>  * Clerk sees the "VISA" logo and says "Sorry, we don't accept VISA".
>
> but is this really any different to the following?
>
>  * I walk up to the checkout in a store with my items.
>  * Checkout clerk rings it up.
>  * I hand over my library card.
>  * Clerk says "You can't pay with this".
>
> In both cases I was unable to complete the transaction. Does it really
> matter what the "error message" is? In both cases I know what to do:  
> pay
> with cash instead, probably cursing the store for the inconvenience.
> (or, in our case, create a traditional local user account and sign in
> with that, cursing the site for not accepting OpenID.)
>
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