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    <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">AOL allows the user to
      choose whether they want a public fixed identifier, or one a
      pseudonymous one tied to the realm.<br>
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      Thanks,<br>
      George</font><br>
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    On 11/18/10 1:03 AM, Tatsuo Kudo wrote:
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      <div>On 2010/11/18, at 9:55, John Bradley &lt;<a
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ve7jtb@ve7jtb.com">ve7jtb@ve7jtb.com</a>&gt;
        wrote:<br>
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        <div>The value of openid.realm is used to determine the value of
          the persistent userID returned by Google.
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          <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>
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          <div>Google is the only OP that is currently doing that by
            default, that I know of.</div>
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      <div>AFAIK, NTT ID Login Service and docomo ID are also doing the
        realm based user identifier by default.</div>
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      <div>Tatsuo.</div>
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          <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>
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          <div>The topic of identifier migration has been discussed
            quite a bit recently. &nbsp;</div>
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          <div>John B.</div>
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              <div>On 2010-11-17, at 9:01 PM, Bill Shupp wrote:</div>
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                I'm curious about the claim that Google's unique
                identifiers changed, and he lost access to his users.&nbsp;
                Does anyone know if there's anything to that?&nbsp; I thought
                that was bound to the realm or return_to parameter.<br>
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                Cheers,<br>
                <br>
                Bill<br>
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