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

2006-10-16 Thread Drummond Reed
Chris, I think you may have me mistaken for somebody else on the list (DR is also David Recordon). I'm a big fan of IdP-initiated login and privacy protection in OpenID. However as much as I think that's an important use case, there's also many use cases around using a public, "omnidirectional" i

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

2006-10-15 Thread Josh Hoyt
On 10/14/06, Chris Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > ident

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,