On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:48:16PM +0900, Nat Sakimura wrote:

> As I have stated earlier, I would like to generalize it a little bit more than
> just openid2/connect.
> 
> This would be very useful to solve "the openid2 provider shutting down
> problem" as well.

If you're going to formalize identity migration, please consider extending
it to handle "identity linkage". Users might want to tell an RP to treat
two different identities as identical for a number of reasons, including
migration. For instance, I might want to link a Yahoo and Google identity
if I feared that one of those companies might shut down operation in my
country, or if I planned to travel to some country where one of those OPs
was likely to be unreachable. If I primarily use Google and find myself
blocked by some Great Firewall, it won't help me to have a strict "migration"
path, but it would be great if I could link my Google identity before I 
leave, at least for the RP sites I care most about.

-Peter

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