[OpenID] "Nightmare" article on OpenID

[George Fletcher]

AOL allows the user to choose whether they want a public fixed 
identifier, or one a pseudonymous one tied to the realm.

Thanks,
George

On 11/18/10 1:03 AM, Tatsuo Kudo wrote:
> On 2010/11/18, at 9:55, John Bradley <ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com 
> <mailto:ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com>> wrote:
>
>> The value of openid.realm is used to determine the value of the 
>> persistent userID returned by Google.
>>
>> There is a PAPE parameter that can trigger the same behaviour in 
>> other OP where the RP doesn't want a correlatable identifier (some 
>> Gov sites ).
>>
>> Google is the only OP that is currently doing that by default, that I 
>> know of.
>
> AFAIK, NTT ID Login Service and docomo ID are also doing the realm 
> based user identifier by default.
>
> Tatsuo.
>
>
>>
>> I know that you can now use a custom openID URL, but that requires 
>> the user to rebind their account at the RP.
>>
>> The topic of identifier migration has been discussed quite a bit 
>> recently.
>>
>> John B.
>> On 2010-11-17, at 9:01 PM, Bill Shupp wrote:
>>
>>> http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened
>>>
>>> I'm curious about the claim that Google's unique identifiers 
>>> changed, and he lost access to his users.  Does anyone know if 
>>> there's anything to that?  I thought that was bound to the realm or 
>>> return_to parameter.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bill
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