[Opensim-dev] User Authentication

[Diva Canto]

Mark Malewski wrote:
> Just to clarify...
>  
> */> Grids could provide openIDs in the form of 
> "/**/openid.osgrid.org/users/screenname/* 
> <http://openid.osgrid.net/screenname>*/"/*
>  
> With all grids being independent of one another, or in the example 
> given by John, maybe use an "openid.osgrid.org/users/screenname 
> <http://openid.osgrid.org/users/screenname>"
>  
> http://openid.osgrid.org/users/Charles_Krinke
>  
For those of you who don't know, this already exists. Click this:
http://osgrid.org:8002/users/charles_krinke
or this:
http://ucigrid00.nacs.uci.edu:8002/users/crista_lopes

> Again, in this example Charles happens to have his identity at OSGrid, 
> but that's not a requirement of the exchange. It could just as easily 
> been an identity from another grid.
>  
> This way various grids could all run "openID" servers, and trust 
> agreements would need to be established between the various grids.
I'm not going to act on anything that suggests "trust agreements between 
various grids." That's an AWG concept that I very much disagree with, 
and want no part in. I have no problem with companies cutting corners on 
security in order to be able to exchange agents on a lawyer-backed up 
trust basis. But that's not what I'm doing here, and that's not what a 
lot of people want OpenSim to be.

The goal is to be able to go from my home standalone to *any* sim out 
there that I know nothing about, and still be sure that nothing bad will 
happen to my belongings. Anything less than this is not acceptable as a 
goal, for me.

Crista

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