Yet Another Delegation Thread

Josh Hoyt josh at janrain.com
Wed Oct 25 18:45:39 UTC 2006


On 10/25/06, Pete Rowley <prowley at redhat.com> wrote:
> > The IdP can issue as many identifiers as it wants to the user, and the
> > user can use a different IdP-specific identifier for each of their
> > separate portable identifiers.
>
> I don't understand why this would help - it really doesn't matter if I
> use one IdP with multiple identifiers or multiple IdPs or how many
> portable identifiers I use if all of them can be correlated through
> specified OpenID discovery mechanisms.

If the user uses different IdP-specific identifiers for each portable
identifier, I don't see how they can be correlated.

Josh



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