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OpenID Delegation
Simon Willison (whose blog used to be green) has an excellent tutorial on setting up OpenID delegations so that you can use your own domain name (see what I said about persistence here) as your OpenID. In fact, you can use any URL where you control the resource (what gets returned when you GET the URL) as an OpenID.
Delegation is an important part of OpenID because it allows you to switch OpenID identity providers, your OpenID stays the same. Just change the link tags in the resource associated with the URL you’re using as an OpenID and you’re in business.
You can tell by the comments on Simon’s blog that he’s introducing the idea of OpenID to quite a few people. I was able to log into Simon’s blog with my i-name, so things are working on his end and 2idi’s! Oh yeah, in case you didn’t know…i-names function as OpenIDs too.
Posted by windley on December 21, 2006 8:07 AM
Comment from Steve Spigarelli at December 22, 2006 9:08 AM
I loved the article and was able to set up my previously created verisign id with my website spig.net. It worked very well. Can I login here when posting using my Open ID?
Comment from HumbleOpinion at December 22, 2006 4:20 PM
I was not able to login using my 2idi account. What was the format of the url you used?
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