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Re: [mmox] where is identity @ in all this?

Gareth Nelson <gareth@litesim.com> Sat, 21 February 2009 00:12 UTC

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> Tightly coupling the MSP and identity provider functions is why I have to
> keep telling people that Mark McCahill is named Mysterio Sinister in Second
> Life - I can't easily be mccahill@duke.edu because Second Life doesn't use
> external federated identity providers. Then when I go to one of the OpenSim
> worlds, I need to create another account, and hope that nobody has signed up
> for Mysterio Sinister before I got there.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't this the problem the OGP agent
domain was designed to resolve?
I propose an agent domain which itself allows multiple methods of authentication

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