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By doing so wouldn't you be mixing identities and roles though?<br>
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If one day I want to act as a staff member and the other day I want<br>
to act as the chancellor of the university or the manager of the<br>
finance department or a member of the athletics club, I'd have<br>
to use different OpenIDs?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Hubert<br>
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Johannes Ernst wrote:
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type="cite">I think this is a good idea. Not sure everybody agrees,
but I think that's an absolutely essential use of OpenID ...
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<div>I would call this "OpenIDs for roles" as opposed to "OpenIDs for
people". Which goes with "OpenID for software agents" and, maybe some
day, "OpenID for RFID tags".</div>
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<div>On May 21, 2007, at 21:58, Peter (pt) Sefton wrote:</div>
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I'm new here. I have tried to find an answer to my question via the
archive and the rest of the web, but no luck.<br>
<br>
Is it reasonable to use OpenId with generic IDs? For example could my
employer, a university have a generic ID like <a
href="http://openid.myuni.edu.au/staff">http://openid.myuni.edu.au/staff</a>
which would authenticate me as an anonymous staff member? We could then
make a federation of universities who all trusted each other staff,
maybe to provide WIFI. <br>
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For other cases which required the site I am visiting to know who I am,
I could use <a href="http://openid.myuni.edu.au/staff/my.name">http://openid.myuni.edu.au/staff/my.name</a>.
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Maybe I also have a role as a student: <a
href="http://openid.myuni.edu.au/student/postgrad">http://openid.myuni.edu.au/student/postgrad</a>.<br>
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In this case I would not have to even remember all these URLs - the
host site could have a kind of "Where are you from, what role do you
have" form, so I would pick my home institution off a list, then say
I'm a staff member and I want to remain anonymous, which is enough to
generate the id: <a href="http://openid.myuni.edu.au/staff">http://openid.myuni.edu.au/staff</a><br>
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Is this being done already? Is it wrong in some way?<br>
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Peter<br clear="all">
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