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Babu,<div><br></div><div>The short answer: "yes, but." It is possible to address this use case with delegation. It's a good feature but may be too advanced for some users. It's certainly not standard practice. This Wiki article might help:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openid.net/Delegation">http://wiki.openid.net/Delegation</a></div><div><br></div><div>Remember that this needs to be part of the initial setup. This is because once the RP has cached an identifier associated with an account, it's difficult to reconfigure that link. That OpenID is your login. How do you prove that a different OpenID is the correct new identifier? Unless your old, unloved provider is willing to help, manual reconciliation is the only way, in many cases, and that's a really expensive and difficult process.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Nate.</div><div><br><div><div>On 30 May 2008, at 13:52, Babu.N wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hi,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">As I understand, OpenID allows a digital identity to be created at an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">OP & let this be used at multiple sites. After creating the digital<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">identify & using it some websites, suppose the doesn't like the OP<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">for service reasons (say frequent downtime, prone to compromises<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">etc). Does OpenID technology allow the user to migrate from this OP<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">to another, yet retaining the same identity (remember this is already<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">used by him in registering at some websites..) ? If not, should this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">not be supported going forward ?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Babu</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>