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[Brian Koontz <brian AT opennicproject.org>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:32:08AM +0100, Simon wrote:
> In my opinion there is an advantage to staying completely separate from
> mechanisms that the big players use, particularly when considered in the
> context of freedom from potential pressure or abuse of this system by
> the powers that be as another mechanism to try and exert censorship or
> control.

This will be my 11th (maybe 12th) year with OpenNIC.  (Jeff has been
here as long as well, looking forward to his comments.)  I can assure
you that the philosophy of OpenNIC is to avoid centralization.  There
was, on several occasions, talk of pulling all the TLDs under one
registration umbrella, but each time this idea was shot down due to it
not being compatible with OpenNIC ideals.  

I think a good middle ground (suggested elsewhere) would be to
introduce OpenID as an option.  Use it or ignore it, your choice.
Although to be truthful, why can't there be a system that simply uses
my PUBLIC KEY that's already on the keyserves for authentication
purposes?  

This part of OpenID has always bothered me:

    >>Other than your provider, no website ever sees your password

Why must this be?  Why can't someone come up with a system that does
not require any password other than your passphrase for your secret
key?

  --Brian