Identifier recycling write-up on the wiki

[Chris Drake]

Hi Josh,

You've got 6 points under the "use cases", but it's really just 1 use
case, and then 5 consequences recycling.

Is there room on your Wiki for opposition?  It's only going to take
one screwup and an angry victim someplace and the whole recycling
issue could bankrupt someone in the prevailing "identity theft"
lawsuit.

Why would any responsible Identity provider want to give a past
identity to a new person, and why would we want to encourage this
misbehavior by supporting it ?

Kind Regards,
Chris Drake


Saturday, June 16, 2007, 9:23:06 AM, you wrote:

JH> Hello,

JH> I spent some time thinking over the issues and going over the
JH> discussions that have happened about identifier recycling, and I wrote
JH> up what I understand about the issue on the OpenID.net wiki [1]. I
JH> think that my best contribution was to try to come up with as many use
JH> cases as I could that related to identifier recycling. I'd love help
JH> in fleshing out the use cases that I came up with, or additions of any
JH> use cases that I missed.

JH> I also wrote up what I knew about each of the proposals for
JH> implementing identifier recycling on its own wiki page. Those pages
JH> are linked from the page with the use cases [1]. I hope that these
JH> documents can help us to reach a conclusion about identifier
JH> recycling. I tried to keep commentary and bias to a minimum. (You get
JH> enough of that from me here on the mailing list.)

JH> I hope that by refining these proposals on the wiki and fleshing out
JH> the use cases, we can understand the problem better and home in on the
JH> solution that best solves the problem.

JH> Josh

JH> 1. http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/Identifier_Recycling
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