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summary: Alternative identity server models
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created: 2014-09-26 22:51:51.0
creator: matthew
description: |-
  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?
id: '10407'
key: SPEC-23
number: '23'
priority: '3'
project: '10001'
reporter: matthew
status: '10100'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:26:42.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '10510'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/460'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:26:42.0
  id: '13235'
  issue: '10407'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:26:42.0