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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Would you say that
in this case [below] the photo hosting site is a "relying
party"? </blockquote><br>
I wanted to say: No.<br><br>
And i fetched the definition we have posted to bolster my case:<br><br>
Relying Party.<br>
A server, website, other URL-located resource or application that uses a
YADIS URL (and the information accessible using a YADIS URL) provided by
a Citizen. The Relying Party discovers the capabilities of any provided
YADIS URL according to the YADIS
<a href="http://yadis.org/wiki/Capability_Discovery_Protocol">Capability
Discovery Protocol</a>, and modifies its own behavior
accordingly.
<a href="http://yadis.org/wiki/Terminology" eudora="autourl">
http://yadis.org/wiki/Terminology<br><br>
</a>Sadly, the answer appears to be: Yes.<br><br>
I am reminded of back in the days when Man was known as Homo faber, the
toolmaker. Jane Goodall sent her periodic report to Leaky, and this
one described the mother teaching her daughter to make a tool for
catching termites. Leaky sent her a telegram: </font>"Now we
must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as humans."
<br><br>
<font size=3>I suggest we redefine 'relying party,' to limit it to
parties relying on so-called "identity information."<br><br>
Of course, if our expectations come to pass, YADIS, OpenID, LID and the
like will grow and the day will soon come when our narrow 'relying party'
definition is just definition 1 a. among 1 b., 1 c., and 2. Then
the answer will again be: Yes.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Imagine that a website ... is
using YADIS to declare the operations it supports. In this case, it's the
website that has the "identity", not a person. Our photohosting
site asks the user to enter a YADIS identity for himself and the URL of
the site to post to. The photohosting site then uses YADIS capability
discovery to find out what versions of the "post an entry to a
weblog" capability are supported.</font></blockquote></body>
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