Identity
To read more about identity see wikipedia.
Identity
Following image shows normalization and discovery process and identity names that comes to play
- User enter his identifier (User-supplied identifier) in HTML form at RP site. For example coidi.com, www.coidi.com/identity/karel.
- Based on user-supplied identifier RP server perform normalization process to get Claimed identifier. For example it could be http://coidi.com/, http://www.coidi.com/identity/karel
- RP server starts discovery process to get OP-Local identifier from RP.
- There have to unique mapping between OP-Local identifier and identity id. For example identity id karel have to be mapped to http://www.coidi.com/identity/karel.
- Discovered OP-Local identifier id return to RP. It's possible that discovery process didn't find OP-Local identifier.