<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>James,</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"></font></p></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">NO!</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Restricting users to only "some trusted OPs" absolutely breaks the core user-centric identity concept on which OpenID is built.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"></font></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please re-read Balasubramanian's comments. My response was, "yes, it does break one of the rules of thumb," with the addition that many other things are threatening those concepts today as well.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">That must not be done lightly. It should not be the first suggestion (particularly from an OpenID board member) without knowing the specifics of a particular web site and its users. Such restrictions might be appropriate for some specialist Relying Parties, but they should be the exceptions, not the norm.</font></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm certainly not a board member, was not nominated, would be flattered but refuse to serve if nominated, and wonder whether you meant someone else.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Nate.</div></body></html>