[OpenID] Claimed Identifiers and Query String Parameters

[Peter Williams]

Don't remember, Jack.

Its nearly 20 years ago, when the pioneers of asymmetric key management when doing their R&D to turn military certs into open certs. Its 1986...when folks started in earnest, with the first ISO draft issued to national committees. The Longhairs have become the Greybeards and the Balding, in the interim. (Sounds a bit like the title of an Italian western). By 1988, there was sso to any "ldap" server. Your "openid" was your distinguishedName (which today is now a URL! ldaps://domain/cn=peter, or gc://cn=dsaentityid)

Out of interest, who else here was solving scalability problems in asymmetric crypto (aka SSL) and public-key key management 20+ years ago?

Unfortunately (or otherwise), US patents can be easily issued for minor "original" variants of the same thing. Would not be in the least surprised to learn one day that Yahoo have a submarine US patent application or continuation on #fragments on positively-asserted claimIds (just because it's a "web" thing, versus the exact same thing solving the exact same problem in the "ldap" world!)

Cannot wait for someone to patent a modern variant of gc://cn=dsaentityid, so they can claim to have rediscovered sp-initiated sso, yellow pages auto-redirects, (and therefore openid auth + metadata-based discovery!)

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Jack Cleaver
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:29 AM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Claimed Identifiers and Query String Parameters

Peter Williams wrote:
> This is the same as (a patented) technique in certs based login/sso,
> wherein the subjects (distinguished) name is augmented with a
> distinguising serial number issued by the issuing authority (to
> denote distinct owners of a name, over time).

Was this patent actually issued, or just applied for?

It *sounds like* "Each time a thing changes, increment its serial-number
by one". This kind of patent makes me want to heave.

--
Jack.
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