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Alternative identity server models (SPEC-23) #46

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matrixbot opened this issue Sep 26, 2014 · 3 comments
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Alternative identity server models (SPEC-23) #46

matrixbot opened this issue Sep 26, 2014 · 3 comments
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A-Identity-Service feature Suggestion for a significant extension which needs considerable consideration

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Our identity server model has some shortcomings:

  • The trusted clique could be seen to act as an oligarchic point of control
  • The clique replicates all state over itself; unlike DNS root servers which partition the dataset
  • We don't have a way to map tokens to arbitrary 3rd party credentials unless one of our trusted clique validates said 3rd party credentials. So otherwise you're stuck using @​myapp-$uid:myapp.com style IDs, which is rather foul.

Could something like bitauth help us on this?

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-23)

(Reported by @ara4n)
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Jira watchers: @ara4n

@matrixbot matrixbot changed the title Alternative identity server models Alternative identity server models (SPEC-23) Oct 31, 2016
@matrixbot matrixbot added the feature Suggestion for a significant extension which needs considerable consideration label Nov 7, 2016
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uhoreg commented Jul 12, 2018

related to #203 ?

@richvdh richvdh transferred this issue from matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals Mar 1, 2022
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richvdh commented Apr 27, 2023

Duplicate of #203

@richvdh richvdh marked this as a duplicate of #203 Apr 27, 2023
@richvdh richvdh closed this as completed Apr 27, 2023
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