24 Jul 00:17
OpenID & LID in a passel-world
From: S. Sriram <ssriram <at> gmail.com>
Subject: OpenID & LID in a passel-world
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.openid.general
Date: 2005-07-23 22:20:22 GMT
Subject: OpenID & LID in a passel-world
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.openid.general
Date: 2005-07-23 22:20:22 GMT
Hi, The significant limitation with passel is the need for end user browser support, this however is counterweighed by the opportunity of having any element of profile data (such as email id) be authenticated (not just passed), and each element having its own signer. (Passel: an open-protocol/technology similar to OpenID. more at http://www.passel.org/whitepaper.html ) So, if passel's limitation i.e. browser support goes away because at some later date all browsers support it, than how would openid live/be relevant in this passel-world ? and what about LID ? It seems to me that the actual identity url would become a profile data element effectively authenticating one's public name in guestbook/comment and other situations where what is needed is a name. So, in a passel world Target(website) asks agent(browser) the following q's What is your public name ? an OpenID url or LID url can authenticate this In OpenId's case: The passel-signer would need to be an openid consumer that talks to an openid server and sends back data in the format that passel-target needs.(Continue reading)
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