Hi,<br><br>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><br>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>. <br><br>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><br>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><br>Is this being done already? Is it wrong in some way?<br><br>Peter<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Peter Sefton<br>Senior Research Fellow / RUBRIC Technical Manager
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