Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-17 Thread Dick Hardt
On 16-Oct-06, at 12:24 PM, Martin Atkins wrote: Chris Drake wrote: There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, then they will be

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-17 Thread Hans Granqvist
Drummond Reed wrote: I think you may have me mistaken for somebody else on the list (. . .) Double-blind anonymity in action? ;) -Hans ___ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs

Re: Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-17 Thread Kevin Turner
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 13:29 +1000, Chris Drake wrote: Now - how comfortable are you with the idea of letting 1.5 billion Chinese people use OpenID Ideally we'd have the input of the SocialBrain Foundation on that. Those are the folks who put together OpenID.cn. Has anyone on this list talked

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Hans Granqvist
Chris Drake wrote: There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, then they will be using a multitude of possibly hostile RPs thereafter:

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Martin Atkins
Chris Drake wrote: There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, then they will be using a multitude of possibly hostile RPs

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case you are better off opening a separate account with this or some other IdP. The current delegation model will not protect you at all. The delegate tag is in a publicly accessible Yadis document. I agree that anonymity is an

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Drummond Reed
+1. Trust is not a boolean. Martin, that's very quotable. Can I attribute it to you? =Drummond -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Atkins Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:25 PM To: specs@openid.net Subject: Re: Identifier portability

Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Chris Drake
portability: the fundamental issue DR Chris Drake wrote: There seem to be a lot of people on this list who want to hate and loathe the IdP, and grant all power to the RP. I do not understand this reasoning: our users will select the IdP they trust and like, then they will be using a multitude

RE: Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-16 Thread Drummond Reed
identifier. So OpenID should accommodate both. =Drummond -Original Message- From: Chris Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:29 PM To: Drummond Reed Cc: 'Martin Atkins'; specs@openid.net Subject: Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue Hi Drummond

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-14 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/13/06, Drummond Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So whether it's in the spec formally or not, I don't really care. But the spec MUST contain details on the precautions a RP should take. Yup.(Got that, editors?) http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0-10.html#anchor38 Josh

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-14 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/13/06, Chris Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DR CASE 1: the protocol supports only IdP-specific identifiers and no portable DR identifiers. DR RESULT: IdPs can achieve identifier lockin. Not acceptable. End of Case 1. Please explain? If I've got an OpenID URL (eg: my vanity domain),

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-14 Thread Martin Atkins
Brad Fitzpatrick wrote: Counter-argument: but OpenID 1.1 does have two parameters: one's just in the return_to URL and managed by the client library, arguably in its own ugly namespace (not IdP/RP managed, not openid., but something else... the Perl library uses oic. or something). So

Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-14 Thread Chris Drake
Hi Josh, I do not believe the RP needs to know the IdP-specific identifier ever (worse: I think it should never be allowed to know it, or even be allowed to see it!). JH Why not? PRIVACY. Page back and read trough my posts to this list for the intricate details. JH Where is power being

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-14 Thread Drummond Reed
@openid.net Subject: Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue Hi Drummond, DR CASE 1: the protocol supports only IdP-specific identifiers and no portable DR identifiers. DR RESULT: IdPs can achieve identifier lockin. Not acceptable. End of Case 1. Please explain? If I've got an OpenID URL (eg

Re: Re[2]: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-14 Thread Dick Hardt
On 14-Oct-06, at 7:28 AM, Chris Drake wrote: JH Where is power being granted to the RP? It has pretty much none. JH It *does* have responsibility, but only as much as is necessary to JH make the protocol work. If RPs are allowed to build up linked portfolios of everyones identifiers, they

Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Drummond Reed
Yesterday we established consensus that with OpenID, identifier portability is sacred. Today I'd like to establish consensus on the following postulate: To achieve identifier portability in OpenID, it MUST be possible for the RP and the IdP to identify the user using two different identifiers:

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Johannes Ernst
On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:59, Drummond Reed wrote: Yesterday we established consensus that with OpenID, identifier portability is sacred. Could somebody please post a succinct definition of identifier portability somewhere. If we have a new religion, we might as well agree what it is ;-)

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Johannes Ernst
On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:59, Drummond Reed wrote: 1) If the RP sends the IdP-specific identifier, the RP must keep state to maintain mapping to the portable identifier (bad), and I agree, but I'm not sure that this is a big issue. Won't a simple cookie be sufficient? Johannes Ernst

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Granqvist, Hans
To achieve identifier portability in OpenID, it MUST be possible for the RP and the IdP to identify the user using two different identifiers: an identifier by which the RP knows the user (the portable identifier), and an identifier by which the IdP knows the user (the IdP-specific

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Brad Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Granqvist, Hans wrote: To achieve identifier portability in OpenID, it MUST be possible for the RP and the IdP to identify the user using two different identifiers: an identifier by which the RP knows the user (the portable identifier), and an identifier by which

Re: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Marius Scurtescu
On 13-Oct-06, at 12:59 PM, Drummond Reed wrote: Yesterday we established consensus that with OpenID, identifier portability is sacred. Today I'd like to establish consensus on the following postulate: To achieve identifier portability in OpenID, it MUST be possible for the RP and

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Title: RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue We must have different understandings of the term sacred then. My understanding of the term is that it refers to a tenet of faith which might cause offense if contradicted. Sent from my GoodLink Wireless Handheld (www.good.com

RE: Identifier portability: the fundamental issue

2006-10-13 Thread Drummond Reed
Drummond wrote: To achieve identifier portability in OpenID, it MUST be possible for the RP and the IdP to identify the user using two different identifiers: an identifier by which the RP knows the user (the portable identifier), and an identifier by which the IdP knows the user (the