Popup flow

Tue Sep 22 19:25:15 UTC 2009

Delegation is orthogonal to the Popup flow. People who own their own 
domain can delegate to an OP by adding a few lines of HTML to the <head> 
section of their site's home page, or by reconfiguring their webserver 
to send the right HTTP headers.

A potential problem with delegation is that RPs may choose to only 
accept OpenIDs from a whitelist of OpenID Providers. For instance, the 
websites taking part in the federal government's open government 
initiative can only accept identifiers that have meet the government's 
security and privacy regulations.

Allen

Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> Interesting discussion, and question. On this last topic, re "running
> her own OpenID", how does this interact with the OpenID delegation
> mechanism? I expect there will be many mums and dads out there who
> might not be up to running their own
> openid service, but will be in a position to buy their own domain
> name. The DNS registrar sites aren't generally very nice for
> non-geeks to use, but that'll change and newly purchased domains will
> be automatically wired up as delegating openids.
>
>   