[OpenID] Google discovery prototype: host-meta from Google

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Thu Jul 16 13:17:55 UTC 2009


>2) "Trust" itself is a nebulous quantity. There are levels of trust. So what
>level of trust are you going to go with? This will invariably lead to
>disagrements. Each persons idea of trust is different. The concept of trust
>has been there from the beginning of humankind. How are you going to
>quantify this in the digital world?

That would be up to each Provider; whether they then provide OAuth 
internally or rely on 3rd parties to handle it is up to them. This is 
currently the status quo, though; the situation isn't anything new 
there.

-Shade



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