OpenID Delegation as a Service

Since there are already a good number of identity providers we did not want to become yet another one for two reasons:

• It would stick our users to our signon service which is quite contradictory to the idea of single signon. If every service did so we would end up with hundreds of OpenID identifiers per user which does not sound very "single".
• It would change our business and liabilities in ways we did not want to. We want to do what we currently do in the best possible ways: Let our users create beautiful homepages.

Fortunately enough, there is OpenID delegation, by means of wich we can offload the "in control of an url" assertion to real OpenID providers. Therefore we think doing so is good in several ways:

• Our users greatly benefit from using their homepage as an OpenID.
• It fosters the use of OpenID and the business of hard providers.
• It lets us do our business good.

So, it seems that page creators like Jimdo or web hosting in general constitutes a real case for deployment of OpenIDs: Delegation as a service.