On Monday, June 7, 2010, SitG Admin <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>I don't see how that follows.
>
>
> Refer to Peter Watkin's response, which has caught on the same
> point.

Done.

>
>
>>You seem to think a non-browser-centric version is
> "broken", but you haven't explained why you think
> that.
>
>
> 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?

>
>>Specifically, I haven't seen a privacy issue which is simply
> 'solved' by moving responsibility into the browser.
>
>
> Integrating static JS code into the browser would make each
> client into the repository of its own XAuth script, instead of relying
> on a central site to download code from.
>

How is this a privacy issue?

>
>>No, I'm saying it works as advertised,
>
>
> You're advertising it as "does not break privacy".
> There is a disconnect here between how you declare it to be Right Now,
> and how your blog post explains that it will only be *if and when the
> browser vendors change their browsers to include support*.
>
>
> From your reply to Peter's questions:
>>Sure, we could host extensions at xauth.org.  And then people could
> download them.  From, um, a centralized site.  How is that
> more decentralized exactly?
>
>
> EXACTLY!!!
>
>
> 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?
>
> -Shade
>
>
> Postscript: I'll quote from the blog post - "Objection:
> The implementation relies on a single domain.  Answer:  The
> current implementation does this" (excerpt terminated just after
> you admit that XAuth's decentralization is broken Right Now and just
> before you attribute this to limitations that browsers have Right
> Now).
>
>

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