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<P><FONT SIZE=2>That sounds just like microid (www.microid.org).<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: general-bounces@openid.net on behalf of Ben Hyde<BR>
Sent: Thu 1/25/2007 12:42 PM<BR>
To: openid-general<BR>
Subject: [OpenID] Marginally interesting use case.<BR>
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There is a very slight analogy, enough to confuse the casual <BR>
observer, between OpenID's plumbing where by user-persona prove they <BR>
'own' a web page and Google's plumbing which allows webmasters to <BR>
claim a website. Google uses that to intermediate access to their <BR>
webmaster tools[1].<BR>
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In the google scenario they give you a blob, you put it on your site <BR>
or in page metadata. Your ability to put it on the page acts as <BR>
proof you have control over the site or page.<BR>
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I was pleased to discover that multiple persona can lay claim to the <BR>
same page. A use case that seems quite sensible to me. The set of <BR>
persona that manage these sites are many.<BR>
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- ben<BR>
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[1] <A HREF="http://www.google.com/webmasters/">http://www.google.com/webmasters/</A><BR>
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