Delegation discussion summary
Dick Hardt
dick at sxip.com
Sun Oct 15 02:59:33 UTC 2006
On 13-Oct-06, at 12:04 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:
> 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?
It was a member of the network of sites running the protocol.
>
> Personally, I quite liked the old OpenID term "consumer". :)
That term was confusing when talking to consumer sites.. Are you
referring to the user "consumer" or the site "consumer".
-- Dick
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