RE: [JDEV] Distributed Authentication - thoughts people?

[Scott Cote]

>> To answer Scott Cote: obviously the final implementation would be decided in the JIG. >> But it would probably be based on the jabber network. So for instance, to login to a >> website/service you would provide your Jabber network address ( i suggest this as a >> more user friendly name JID ) and then your jabber server would be contacted to authenticate.   Ah, now I see. That makes perfect sense. Thanks. >> However, like I've said before, we should recognise that this is bigger than Jabber. If we >> define a protocol, it should be sufficiently abstracted to allow bindings to other protocols >> as well, therefore allowing interoperability.   Even better.   -Scott