> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of "Martin v. Löwis" > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:46 AM > To: Jesus Cea > Cc: catalog-sig > Subject: Re: [Catalog-sig] OpenID on PyPI > > > > Then the OpenID support is very compromised. > > That may well be the case. > > > The point of OpenID is not > > to depend of a centralized service. That is the reason I have my own > > OpenID provider. > > If that's the idea, then I think OpenID is severely flawed. > > However, I disagree that this is the idea. Instead, the idea is > to have an open protocol, to allow for competition between providers.
>From http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html: "OpenID is decentralized. No central authority must approve or register Relying Parties or OpenID Providers. An end user can freely choose which OpenID Provider to use, and can preserve their Identifier if they switch OpenID Providers." Sounds pretty clear to me. --Noah _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
