Requiring Pseudonymous Identifier

[Luke Shepard]

Agreed. If all you want is a group, then I'd think that the response would just not include an identifier.

You could use an extension, perhaps AX, to request information about the group a user belongs to.

For example, if you wanted to understand company membership, you could request and return only http://axschema.org/company/name.

On 5/12/09 11:08 PM, "Martin Atkins" <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:

Chris Messina wrote:
>
> So, imagine I use directed identity in a school application... when I sign
> in to the OP, it will return something like schoolname.edu/student as the
> identifier.
>

Overloading our existing concept of an identifier to support identifying
a group worries me. Most consumers expect an identifier to be for a
person and are designed around this principle.

I think if groups are useful their design should be different such that
consumers are able to distinguish between a user and a group.

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