Delegation discussion summary
Martin Atkins
mart at degeneration.co.uk
Fri Oct 13 07:04:47 UTC 2006
Graves, Michael wrote:
>
>
> I won't delve into where we are with respect to that capability here,
> but want to suggest that maybe as we move to OpenID 2.0, and now offer
> portable IDs (as well as run-time chosen IDs selected at auth-time?), we
> may be wise to just make the jump to using "homesite" and "membersite"
> across the board, rather than "IdP" and "relying party", both of which
> are technically problematic for our framework.
>
I kinda get "homesite", but I don't understand the thinking behind
"membersite": What is this site supposed to be a "member" of?
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Personally, I quite liked the old OpenID term "consumer". :)
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