[OpenID] OpenID Registration

[Andrew Arnott]

Technically possible, yes.  But no OP that I know of offers a popular email
service, directed identity, *and* the sreg/AX extension to get the desired
user information.  Every OP that I know of seems to lack at least one of
these.  So practically it's not there yet.

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:

> No.
> At least not in a way that respects the intent and design of OpenID.
>
> The whole point of OpenID is to move authentication off-site; authorization
> to accessing a user's data should be considered a separate task even if the
> flow is unified.
>
> Not that your desire isn't reasonable; it's that we're trying to move
> *away* from [untrusted] third parties unnecessarily asking for users'
> credentials like passwords.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Aaron Rose <aaron at acclaim.com> wrote:
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>>  Is it possible to have a extra link on a registration form that says
>> "Register with OpenID" a visitor inputs their OpenID email and password and
>> it validates and ports over the registration information we need?
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>> Thanks
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>> Aaron
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