[OpenID] moving onto inames inumbers ibrokers .. or at least tryingto

[Drummond Reed]

Peter,

 

I'm cc'ing five folks who can help but whom may not be monitoring this list
closely: 

 

1) John Bradley at Wingaa/ooTao (the wholesale i-broker on whose platform
LinkSafe operates), who has been helping with OpenID and i-names integration
at Plaxo.

 

2) Mike Mell, who does a lot of the magic at LinkSafe.

 

3) Markus Sabadello (based in Vienna), who operates FreeXRI, which has no
connection with LinkSafe or Wingaa/ooTao, but who is very involved in
contributing the open source OpenXRI codebase which he operates at
FreeXRI.com.

 

4) Wil Tan of NeuStar who is another key contributor to OpenXRI and has
integrated it with the public XRI resolver services NeuStar operates on
behalf of XDI.org.

 

5) Les Chasen, director of registry engineering at NeuStar.

 

Any or all of them might be willing to help with your test i-broker server
and "controlled test lab".

 

=Drummond 

 

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From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Peter Williams
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:33 PM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: [OpenID] moving onto inames inumbers ibrokers .. or at least
tryingto

 

I've been  been struggling for the last hour with the freeid (beta)
i-services from https://linksafe.ezibroker.net/.  I'm making an effort to
address XRI, i-names etc etc etc.

 

Basically, that service has provisioned me 2 openids (in xri form). I cannot
access either of the accounts associated with those names, tho. Password
auth seems broken, for now. One can provision the password, but not use it.
But, it is a beta service. The site clearly says upon attempting to logon:
authentication failed, and I have been unable to bind my infocard, as yet. I
have asserted my card, though (I think).

 

So I now get to type "@freeid*lockbox" . into plaxo (which is going to go
down like a lead balloon, in my user community).  But, at least it worked -
in that it redirected to the expected OP.

 

When, I type that string into the Rapattoni/trustbearer consumer, it
redirects to a different OP logon page to that which Plaxo redirects me to,
giving me a page of stuff all logging in as
xri://@!4E3C.6E35.633A.FD2A!729B.7E1E (which is going to go down like 32
lead balloons, in my user community)

 

1.   I have no idea what that particular xri blurb is - never having seen
the particular value before.

2.   Similar strings have appeared at times on the freeid website, as if I
have half-logged onto a session. I may thus be in buggy sessions.

3.   Is there a reason why the same openid goes to different logon servers
(in terms of the openid/xri model)?

4.   Has anyone got either long server's local password authentication to
work, so they can (a) bind the infocard via account management, and/or (b)
assert to plaxo?

 

If I pay the $12 for the paid name, anyone know if the services associated
with the name would work _today_ (while I'm still trying to grasp what's
going on)?

 

Anyone willing to recommend spending time on installing the open source
ibroker server, as mentioned by the freeid service? Would such an effort
practically (and reasonably easily) help me get to grips with xri and
openid2 - in a controlled test lab?

 

Peter.

 

 

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