multiple identity servers

[ydnar]

I like the idea of having multiple servers. I like the idea of having both 
TypePad and/or LiveJournal being able to assert http://shaderlab.com.

Since the OpenID client stores the assertable URL (ideally), and not the 
identity server URL.

y


On Wed, 18 May 2005, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > WTF was I smoking?  If one fails because the server's down, we don't know
> > how to fall back to the next, since we never got notified that it was
> > down.  The user's browser did.
> > 
> > Okay, one identity server!
> > 
> 
> Failing to multiple servers wasn't the point. The idea was that 
> consumers might have an identity server whitelist or blacklist, so a 
> user can assert multiple servers in the hope that one will be used. As I 
> mentioned before, the common case is that the consumer will have no 
> prejucide and will just pick any one. (probably the first)
> 
> Some measure of fallback could be provided by having the helper pick one 
> at random so that a different one is picked each time the user hits the 
> login button, but that's so unlikely to happen it doesn't seem worth 
> worrying about as a spec requirement.
> 
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