[OpenID] Anonymous, meaningless?

[Andrew Arnott]

I had to chuckle at your dilemma of a server that didn't have space for the
OpenIDs.
"Oh," I can hear all the other webmasters saying, "that I had the problem of
too many visitors...!"
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:06 PM, SitG Admin
<sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com>wrote:

> 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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