Re: A registration with a common userbase?

> Is anyone interested into establishing a user login class and > infrastructure, a kind of passport system? > > The respective class would use an external or distributed > database to validate the user against that database. It would > also enable registration to that database, perhaps also adding > additional data about that user to the central store. For any sort of scalability it would need to be distributed, I would think. Seems like LDAP would be the logical choice here. A nice free-form format that would allow people to extend the schema without forcing large-scale schema restructuring, and the replication suits something like this perfectly as well. The obvious problem is security. By what criteria do you choose servers and who chooses? Theoretically you should only need a couple of geographically distributed servers, but the admins of each of these would need to be explicitly trusted by the entire community. -Rasmus