[OpenID] Laws of id, openid with ssl

[Martin Atkins]

Drummond Reed wrote:
> Peter, just to reinforce Dick's first step below -- in directed identity,
> the user does not give their own public identifier to the RP, only the
> identifier of their OP. That way the RP knows how to discover the OP's XRDS
> and connect to the service endpoint for the OP's directed identity service
> (<Type>http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/identifier_select</Type>). 
> 
> The OP then returns the user's selected identifier (either public or private
> -- user's choice).
> 

I think calling it a "private" identifier is a bit misleading. All 
OpenID identifiers are public.

Perhaps a terms to use would be "obfuscated", "single-use" or "throwaway".