[OpenID] OpenID 2.0 directed identity - Facebook / Microsoft

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Sun Sep 5 07:04:13 UTC 2010


>Facebook is a relying party. We accept identifiers that direct to 
>another location (although not perfectly).

Confusion in advertising: is OpenID a technical measure (providing 
outsourced authentication) or a social measure (providing 
cross-recognized identity)? With differences in ToS between various 
sites, I see a severe distinction between "OpenID will let you share 
your profile data on one service with users on another service." and 
"OpenID will let you sign up for an account at sites you already 
didn't want to have an account at."

-Shade


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