Server-to-server channel

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Tue Apr 3 15:24:23 UTC 2007


On 2-Apr-07, at 11:50 AM, Chris Drake wrote:
> "User Centric" implies that sites don't store anything about me, and
> that whenever they need to know stuff (eg: my email), they instead ask
> my OpenID server, which returns them the answer (unless I've since
> revoked permission or whatever).  Again - server-to-server (although
> this time in the reverse direction) applies here.

I understand why you think  User Centric implies a site does not  
store anything about me.

User Centric implies that the user is the center of the transaction.

Server to server is so NOT User Centric!

-- Dick




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