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color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://lists.projectconcordia.org/pipermail/community/2008-January/000223.html">http://lists.projectconcordia.org/pipermail/community/2008-January/000223.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I wish Openid would join Concordia (and not just as a bit of
marketing to “appear” cooperative). Then, the “community”
addressing the same problems would be much stronger, and less divided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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general-bounces@openid.net [mailto:general-bounces@openid.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Luke
Shepard<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 13, 2009 8:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nat Sakimura; Allen Tom<br>
<b>Cc:</b> general@openid.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OpenID] Can we make a seamless OpenID mobile experience?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Peter Williams] <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:5.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Many
providers use email/password or username/password, but not all, and in fact
OAuth and OpenID were built explicitly to not require passwords, which is
great. Allen raises a great point, too – one of the scenarios enabled by
OpenID is delegating through multiple authorities – i.e,. I use my Google
OpenID to log in to, say, Yahoo, and then I use that to authorize Flickr photos
to a photo printing service. With the chain of redirects in a browser, this is
doable, but how do you manage that chain of responsibility without a browser?<br>
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I don’t have an answer – doing it in a distributed way is really
hard, which is why the community has basically punted on it. I just want to
raise that it is a real problem, and if the open protocols always require a
one-size-fits-all “stick it in a browser”, then they will always be
at a competitive disadvantage to systems that do enable login to devices
without browsers. So it is in the interests of the community to brainstorm a
solution to this problem.<br>
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