OpenID, YADIS and Directed Identity

[Josh Hoyt]

On 2/12/06, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> So I enter my identity URL as mart.whatever.com and my identity server
> tells the relying party "The remote user is 8769387639.whatever.com".
> What have I gained here? They know I originally entered
> mart.whatever.com, so they can tell that the two correlate.

If you just specify your server rather than specifying your URL, and
lots of other people use it, then it would provide some anonymity.
IIRC, the URL-based SXIP works this way.

Josh