[OpenID] Recycling OpenIDs (Was: What's broken in OpenID 2.0? (IIW session))

[Evan Prodromou]

On Sat, 2007-12-05 at 23:17 +0200, Dmitry Shechtman wrote:

> 1. OpenID needs canonical IDs (duh!).

I strongly disagree with this.

I think OpenID works great as a loose confederation of identity
providers which have their own rules for allocating or re-allocating
identifiers.

If relying parties require some high level of authentication, we have
ways to specify that.

If anyone wants a canonical ID, they should use the i-names system,
already supported by OpenID.

I think this whole recycling-IDs issue is wrongheaded and broken.

Hands off my IdP!

-Evan

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