<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The value of openid.realm is used to determine the value of the persistent userID returned by Google.<div><br></div><div>There is a PAPE parameter that can trigger the same behaviour in other OP where the RP doesn't want a correlatable identifier (some Gov sites ).</div><div><br></div><div>Google is the only OP that is currently doing that by default, that I know of.</div><div><br></div><div>I know that you can now use a custom openID URL, but that requires the user to rebind their account at the RP.</div><div><br></div><div>The topic of identifier migration has been discussed quite a bit recently. </div><div><br></div><div>John B.</div><div><div><div>On 2010-11-17, at 9:01 PM, Bill Shupp wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened">http://blog.wekeroad.com/thoughts/open-id-is-a-party-that-happened</a><br><br>I'm curious about the claim that Google's unique identifiers changed, and he lost access to his users. Does anyone know if there's anything to that? I thought that was bound to the realm or return_to parameter.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Bill<br>
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