Registration framework

David Bovill david.bovill at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 10:14:24 EST 2009


2009/12/4 Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org>

>
> I feel like the idea of having a user associate multiple OpenID
> identifiers with a single account is not very user-friendly and
> essentially has the user solve a problem that should be handled by the
> infrastructure. Adhocracy does support multiple associations, though.
>

Yes - just a hacky thought :)


> > AFAIK there is no current implementation to store any additional metadata
> > with OpenID. The only easy thing to do would be to use additional uri's/
> a
> > uri naming convention), or doing a lookup for the authenticated URI with
> a
> > meta-db.
>
> There is. Any recent implementation of OpenID supports Attribute
> Exchange (http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0.html)
> and Simple Registration
> (http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html).
> Attribute Exchange (AX) is essentially a key-value system which allows
> developers to specify attributes that can be exchanged between the
> provider and consumer.
>

Just to check - I'd researched the specifications, but your saying that most
of the recent libraries actually support this in implementation? Would be
good to see what languages etc implementations that supported attribute
exchange were available in.
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