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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>> I currently leave the OpenID headers missing from my site, and the OP<BR>
> unavailable; if I ever want to log in with OpenID, these can both be<BR>
> put back in place just long enough for that. <BR>
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Let’s be realistic. This type of situation does not apply to the majority of the readers of this list, not to mention the rest of the internet.<BR>
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> If a RP were to check back in again later on, when I had not explicitly commanded it to do<BR>
> so (and thus been expecting that, in advance, so I knew to make this<BR>
> possible), it would then experience an error.<BR>
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Then you have chosen not to support checkid_immediate. That’s fine, there is competition among providers and some will choose providers that give them more control. But it’s not like this is some crazy idea from left field – it is in the spec.<BR>
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The changes that Bill and I proposed (way back on the thread) are to make it *possible*<B> </B>for an OpenID provider to *offer*<B> </B>its users the ability to have a single signon/signout concept. For example, if Facebook were to become an OpenID provider, it would want to offer that functionality to mirror what is currently available with Facebook Connect.<BR>
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We’re trying to solve this problem: suppose there are some relying parties, some providers, and some users that want to build a single sign in / sign out system. How would they go about doing that using open standards?<BR>
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That doesn’t mean that everyone has to do it. We just want to figure out how we COULD do it for those that wish to support it.<BR>
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P.S. I’ll just pimp my blog again, which has a further description of what I’m trying to achieve with these changes:<BR>
<a href="http://www.sociallipstick.com/2009/05/logout-the-other-half-of-the-identity-equation/">http://www.sociallipstick.com/2009/05/logout-the-other-half-of-the-identity-equation/</a><BR>
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