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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:44:35AM +0000, Julian Hall wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6339813.stm > > Just as I was beginning to think this was perhaps workable M$ support it - I > > cant help but feeling somethings wrong... > > Tom te tom te tom > By 'web address' I assume they mean domain or website? That's clever - > what about the millions whose only webspace is with their ISP? They > don't own it, and if they're proposing that ISPs share customer details > with them then the DPA will jump all over that at light speed. No way > I'd be happy with my ISP sharing my details with a third > party,especially one Microsoft has a hand in. No. You can run your own authentication server, if you like. Or, you can sign up for an OpenID service, e.g. MyOpenID.com, and get a URL from them. Then, if you already have a URL associated with you, you can set that up to forward to the authentication server URL. My MyOpenID URL is http://bma.myopenid.com/ but whenever I need to authenticate I use http://bmalee.eu/~bma/ - in the headers of that page are a couple of META tags that point anything looking for authentication towards the MyOpenID server. The ISP has nothing to do with it, unless they run their own auth server. bma
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