Re: Attribute Exchange pre-draft 5

2007-04-03 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 3/26/07, Johnny Bufu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since draft_4 [1] we've done some implementation and testing (as well as listened to community's suggestions on related issues), and have incorporated some changes into a pre-draft-5. Before publishing it I would like to see your comments about

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Anders Feder
Johnny Bufu wrote: This is basically a push approach, as opposed to the pull approach you were suggesting. I'm new to OpenID, and no engineer, but I have to say that I have a bad feeling about this 'push' approach. It inverts the relationship between client and server and seems entirely

Re: Attribute Exchange pre-draft 5

2007-04-03 Thread Dick Hardt
On 3-Apr-07, at 3:32 AM, Josh Hoyt wrote: If I understand correctly, the response to a request for an attribute with count.x=1 is different from the response for a request with no count specified, even though the meaning is the same. (namespacing left off for clarity) Request:

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Dick Hardt
Good questions to tease out the logic behind the architecture Anders, responses to each of your points below ... On 3-Apr-07, at 6:18 AM, Anders Feder wrote: Johnny Bufu wrote: This is basically a push approach, as opposed to the pull approach you were suggesting. I'm new to OpenID, and

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Dick Hardt
On 3-Apr-07, at 8:24 AM, Dick Hardt wrote: On 2-Apr-07, at 11:50 AM, Chris Drake wrote: User Centric implies that sites don't store anything about me, and that whenever they need to know stuff (eg: my email), they instead ask my OpenID server, which returns them the answer (unless I've

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Rowan Kerr
On 3-Apr-07, at 9:18 AM, Anders Feder wrote: * The RP can't know the status of the information it is working with - it just have to assume that the attributes it has in store are up- to-date. The RP can send an update_url to the OP when it fetches the attributes, so it will get new values

Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
As an end-user to user-centric approaches, I have noticed an interesting pattern. Microsoft does a wonderful job of selling Cardspace as a solution to others who develop in Microsoft languages. Likewise, there are tons of vendors that can offer solutions for large enterprises to purchase but no

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Anders Feder
Rowan, Thanks for your response. Again, I have no formal education, so don't bother if my comments are worthless. I just want to specify the concerns I do have, based on my own experience, in case they are of any use to the process. Rowan Kerr skrev: The RP can send an update_url to the OP

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread Recordon, David
People might be, though nothing real formal that I personally know of. You volunteering? :P --David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT) Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:15 AM To: specs@openid.net Subject: Promoting

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread Gabe Wachob
More likely that the people promoting OpenID to large organizations are vendors and don't particularly want to tell their competitors what they are doing. Now, imagine if there were like-minded vendors getting together to form some sort of marketing organization to promote OpenID to a variety of

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Gabe, I think you nailed it. The problem I run across is that my interest in using OpenID is all about getting a federation of sorts up and working within my insurance vertical which contains 250 distinct competitors. Getting emails offlist privately with vendors marketing uniquely to me is not

RE: Promoting OpenID

2007-04-03 Thread McGovern, James F \(HTSC, IT\)
Imagine the waves through the technology community when end-customers stand up and preach how to code to vendors. Sadly, I am only outlining the problem space in hopes that others could step up and run with it. I think it would be appropriate for me to participate in panel discussions at

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Wayne Pierce
Anders, On 4/3/07, Anders Feder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rowan Kerr skrev: The RP can send an update_url to the OP when it fetches the attributes, so it will get new values when the user changes them at the OP. But the RP can't know if the update_url is honored, i.e. if it will ever

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Anders Feder
Dick Hardt wrote: There are two common client server design patterns. Request / Response and Publish / Subscribe. I see - I was not aware that the latter model was so well-understood in the client/server paradigm. The RP has what ever the user last gave the RP. If the user is involved in

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Vinay Gupta
On Apr 3, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Wayne Pierce wrote: One could say that OpenID should not be relied on to exchange sensitive information like bank account numbers, but 1) I think its a shame to limit a technology with such great potential, and 2) chances are that OpenID will be relied upon

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Anders Feder
Wayne Pierce wrote: When I update my information at a new OP how about some way to tell the RP it is the most authoritative. Not sure if this should be taken care of at the application or protocol level, I'd like to see it in the protocol though. The big concern I see with this is that

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Dick Hardt
On 3-Apr-07, at 3:05 PM, Anders Feder wrote: Dick Hardt wrote: There are two common client server design patterns. Request / Response and Publish / Subscribe. I see - I was not aware that the latter model was so well- understood in the client/server paradigm. The RP has what ever

Re: Server-to-server channel

2007-04-03 Thread Johannes Ernst
On Apr 3, 2007, at 16:20, Dick Hardt wrote: The FOAF camp was rolling along with the Pull model until they realized the issues around access control of the data. ... Push is actually much simpler then Pull for any kind of sensitive data, which is most of the useful attribute data. I

Re: Web Access Management

2007-04-03 Thread Dick Hardt
Ping demoed OpenID technology at RSA. I hear Novell and IBM are looking at supporting OpenID. Microsoft has said they will in future products. Oracle and CA are following OpenID. So, yes. :-) On 2-Apr-07, at 8:21 AM, McGovern, James F ((HTSC, IT)) wrote: Unlike blog sites and Internet

Re: SREG namespace URI rollback

2007-04-03 Thread Dick Hardt
I can see an OP thinking that AX is a big step, but have a hard time seeing it to be that big for an RP (once there are libraries that support AX) ... and it is really not that much more to do AX over SREG for an RP. Where you thinking OP or RP David? -- Dick On 3-Apr-07, at 12:17 PM,