[OpenID] Laws of id, openid with ssl

[Drummond Reed]

> Peter Williams wrote:
> Law 4:directed identity. Enough said. The mission of uci is contrary to
> this law? Surely? Uci thesis essentially denies the legitinmacy of the
> notion of private identities.

Peter, the directed identity feature in OpenID 2.0 fully supports directed
identity. Thus I would not say the "user-centric identity thesis" denies the
legitimacy of the notion of private identities at all. Rather user-centric
identity means the user is in control of the identifiers. As of OpenID 2.0,
a user can have two types of user-centric identifiers: public identifiers
(what Law 4 calls "omnidirectional identifiers") that can be shared
publicly, and private identifiers (what Law 4 calls "directional
identifiers") which are not intended to be shared publicly.

=Drummond