Hi James,

Yahoo supports the PAPE extension specifically to mark our assertions with NIST Auth Level 0, to indicate that Relying Parties should not Yahoo OpenID assertions to authorize transactions of financial value, or other high value transactions. We have this documented in our FAQ here:

http://developer.yahoo.com/openid/faq.html

Thanks,
Allen




Drummond Reed wrote:

James Tindall wrote: Hello all, I have a quick question that doesn't seem to be covered in the existing spec docs. If a user enters 'yahoo.com' the OpenID discovery phase yields this xrds document: <XRD> <Service priority="0"> <Type>http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/server</Type> <Type>http://specs.openid.net/extensions/pape/1.0</Type> <URI>https://open.login.yahooapis.com/openid/op/auth</URI> </Service> </XRD> Is a Relying Party to take this as meaning that the Yahoo OpenID server supports all PAPE policies?

It depends on what you mean by "supports all PAPE policies"? The XRD above simply says that the Yahoo OpenID 2.0 server supports PAPE, which means the RP can include a PAPE request in their OpenID 2.0 authentication request to the Yahoo OP, and Yahoo will answer the request saying which policies it did/didn't use for authentication (e.g., was it phishing-proof or not?) It doesn't mean that Yahoo has to support all the potential authentication policies that the PAPE vocabulary includes. =Drummond _______________________________________________ general mailing list general <at> openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general

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