Another approach although left up to the authenticating site would be for a temporary account where the temporary username/password is sent to the users email address during downtime.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 6, 2007 1:53 PM, Dick Hardt <
<a href="mailto:dick@sxip.com">dick@sxip.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That would be one approach, but I can see it being very challenging
<br>for your average user to manage.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On 6-Dec-07, at 10:10 AM, André Luís wrote:<br><br>> That's why I believe it's a good practice for each user to have more<br>> than one provider and the consumer services allow to register more
<br>> than one OpenID address for each of their account.<br>><br>> I'm new to the list, so pardon if any of this have been argued<br>> against.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>> André Luís<br>><br>> On Dec 6, 2007 5:47 PM, Dominick Accattato <
<a href="mailto:daccattato@gmail.com">daccattato@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>> What happens when an OpenId provider is down:<br>>> <a href="http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/blog/2007/09/disadvantage-of-" target="_blank">
http://www.alexanderinteractive.com/blog/2007/09/disadvantage-of-</a><br>>> openid-and-web-services.html<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Dominick Accattato, CTO<br>>> Infrared5 Inc.<br>>> <a href="http://www.infrared5.com" target="_blank">
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