Proposal for Recycling Identifiers in OpenID 2.0

[Johannes Ernst]

On May 14, 2007, at 9:12, Dick Hardt wrote:

> The issue you bring up is a separate issue then the motivation for
> recycling identifiers by large OPs.

What I'm saying is a superset of the issue discussed so far that  
ought to use the same technical solution because the problem is the  
same: "X used identifier Y, and now Z controls Y. What now?"


> Your point is how does a user transfer from one identifier to another.

While related, that's not the issue I was talking about.

But you are right in that all of those problems should be solved at  
the same time.

>
> The issue at hand is the scarcity of namespace.
>
> -- Dick
>
> On 14-May-07, at 8:48 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>
>> These seems to be an assumption on this thread that
>> - identifiers at the same domain name get recycled often (e.g.
>> example.com/jim)
>> - domain names don't get recycled often (e.g example.com itself)
>>
>> I would suggest that any proposed solution needs to be able to deal
>> with domain names as well that aren't being renewed, and picked up
>> by somebody else. Somebody who isn't necessarily continuing any
>> kind of naming scheme the previous owner had in place, or who is
>> actively hostile with respect to the previous owner.
>>
>> There's a whole industry out there recycling domain names -- which
>> proves that this is an issue.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Johannes Ernst
>> NetMesh Inc.
>>
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