XAuth critiques

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Jun 8 03:01:27 UTC 2010


>>  It isn't decentralized (you have admitted this yourself!).
>>
>
>So what degree of decentralization is necessary for non-brokenness in
>your philosophy?  Is ICANN allowable?

Again, just remember your own words:
"Objection:  The implementation relies on a single domain."

>>  This is how you are doing things RIGHT NOW.
>>
>>
>>  THAT is what makes XAuth broken.
>>
>
>So you're saying Peter's suggestion is exactly as broken?

Read carefully: this is how YOU are doing things.

Peter's replies have already covered everything else I might have 
said, with notable thoroughness and elegance at that, so I will bow 
out for now, with one exception: I will try to assemble a Venn 
diagram depicting the XAuth concepts and where you/me/Peter reside 
along them.

-Shade


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