<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The original Connect proposal uses a simple form of discovery (Not full webfinger/LRDD) for email type identifiers where only the domain portion is used.<div><br></div><div>That in principal forces delegation if supported to be domain based rather than user based.</div><div><br></div><div>As an example if I wanted to delegate my Yahoo email ID to another provider I couldn't do that.</div><div><br></div><div>While the protocol supports delegating out now in reality no major OP support individual XRDS to allow it.</div><div><br></div><div>The concern I have is that the Connect proposal needs to support some user centric discovery mechanism so that delegation in to a IdP from a personal domain can be made to work.</div><div><br></div><div>I understand that only discovering the host portion is more efficient. </div><div><br></div><div>It will be a interesting conversation in the WG once we get going.</div><div>The important question is do we want personal discovery documents that can contain multiple relationships and perhaps authentication protocols eg openID 2.0?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>John B.<br><div><div>On 2010-06-18, at 8:20 PM, Allen Tom wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">As far as I know, delegation should continue to work in the Connect proposal. Delegation was pretty straightforward in OpenID 1.1, but became overly complex, if not broken, in OpenID 2.0. <br>
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On 6/18/10 12:01 PM, "James Walker" <<a href="x-msg://23/walkah@walkah.net">walkah@walkah.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">I've often promoted delegation as one of the strongest things OpenID<br>
has done for *user centric* identity. It'd be a real shame to lose<br>
that power in vNext / Connect.<br>
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Glad to see you and Gina bringing (even) more awareness (than you already have)!<br>
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.j<br>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Chris Messina <<a href="x-msg://23/chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Turns out people aren't apparently familiar with the delegation feature of<br>
> OpenID, given the response to my comments on This Week in Google and Gina<br>
> Tripani's followup post:<br>
> <a href="http://smarterware.org/6286/how-to-set-up-openid-on-your-own-domain/">http://smarterware.org/6286/how-to-set-up-openid-on-your-own-domain/</a><br>
> Turns out people seem to like this feature after all!<br>
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