[OpenID] Anonymous, meaningless?

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Actually there is something like this: 
http://openid.net/specs/openid-assertion-quality-extension-1_0-03.html

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SitG Admin:
>> What you're attempting in heuristically finding anonymous claimed
>> ids is definitely interesting and in OpenID 1.x probably would have
>> worked really well.  I can't right now think of how to carry it over
>> into 2.0 meaningfully though. :(
>>      
>
> Maybe by asking OP's that implement such a feature to add another
> openid string to all those passed saying "This is a real ID." when
> they are and "This ID is anonymous." when they aren't?
>
> Even for those not sharing my approach to pre-emptive access control
> (which OpenID works very well for, since you can know someone's
> "username" without needing to worry about that person setting up a
> password or someone else rushing in and setting up that account
> first), it may be useful for easier Identity management (local to the
> Relying Party's server). I've been thinking that, for those who don't
> have an OpenID yet, I can still offer them access (just read, no
> write) to a small number of pages, and suggest they use the
> www.jkg.in/openid/everyone URI for it, consolidating what could
> potentially be enough newly created anonymous URI's to eat up all my
> server's HD space into a single URI that's used by "everyone". MUCH
> easier to search the databases when there are fewer entries, too. It
> would also be nice to give them a "testing" OpenID that would walk
> them through the process and explain what was (and wasn't) happening
> as they authenticated - educating them about OpenID.
>
> Unfortunately my ability to come up with ideas like this easily
> outstrips my ability to actually implement them ;)
>
> -Shade, still toiling away on code for basic functionality
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