[OpenID] EU regulators call for tighter privacy provisions onOpenID, Facebook (U)

Andrew Arnott andrewarnott at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 05:26:10 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> Well, the spec does allow the OP to ignore the claimed identifier and to
> just treat all requests as an OP-identifier.
>

If it does, then I don't like that part of the spec.  IMO if the RP wanted
to use an OP Identifier it could have used one.  But if an RP needs to
verify that a user controls a particular identifier, then it loses that
ability for OPs that ignore the claimed_id in the request.
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