> >> George Fletcher wrote: > >> > >> I think relying party sites that support OpenID could do more to make > it > >> clear on their home pages that they support OpenID (as often it's > hidden > >> behind another click). This could be as simple as some <link> tags that > >> advertise support for OpenID. Maybe a <link> to the XRDS doc describing > >> the services of the site. Then the identity agent can discover the > >> relying party OpenID return_to endpoint and log the user in directly. > >> Can be used to solve a phishing problem and makes the experience easy > >> for the user. > >> > >> Some related thoughts .... > >> http://practicalid.blogspot.com/2007/06/clients-to-rescue.html > >> > >> http://practicalid.blogspot.com/2007/06/passive-identity-meta-system- > >> markup.html > >> > > Drummond wrote: > > George, I read your two posts with great interest...and then noticed > that > > they were last summer! > > > > You are a man ahead of your time. > > > > Where has discussion of your "IDMML" gone since your posts? > > > George wrote: > Unfortunately, not as far as I'd like :( I've not been able to get back > to the ideas and take them farther. With the other things that have > happened in the last 6 months there are needed revisions. Maybe this > could be a discussion at IIW (if there is enough interest)? > > At the time there was less consensus around XRDS as a service > "description/meta-data" markup. With that changing, the time is better > to move this forward. I suspect there are significant synergies with > what Peter hinted at in the work with XRDS, IDP Discovery, and SAML. It > would be great if identity agents could be the glue that binds the > different identity systems together for the user (until we on the > technology side get closer to real convergence:).
George, I agree that several things have evolved which could make an IDMML practical now. Seems like a very good topic for IIW. I just put it on the list of proposed sessions: http://iiw.idcommons.net/index.php/Proposed_Topics_2008a =Drummond _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs