I commend you on the cleanliness of your reference implementation. It looks to be a completely by the book rails application. Anyone could contribute I am sure.
This is in sharp contrast to the tent guys who for some reason rolled their own web framework in ruby, leading to a very messy codebase in my opinion.
But more on topic, I am having a bit of trouble understanding what this service is going to do. What is the usecase? I think I got this from it:
1. A user wants an identity, so he registers at aka.nu (or other provider) and gets a nice url like tinco.aka.nu.
2. The user uses this url as an openid url to create an account on stackoverflow.
3. Stackoverflow gets information about the user by querying the url for meta information.
But.. this is exactly what openid does. I have an openid account at myopenid.com, and pointed me.tinco.nl to redirect to it. Now when you go to me.tinco.nl you see my public openid profile. And I log in to stackoverflow with me.tinco.nl as the identifier. And stackoverflow filled in some of the fields with information it got from myopenid.
What is your unique selling point?
This is in sharp contrast to the tent guys who for some reason rolled their own web framework in ruby, leading to a very messy codebase in my opinion.
But more on topic, I am having a bit of trouble understanding what this service is going to do. What is the usecase? I think I got this from it:
1. A user wants an identity, so he registers at aka.nu (or other provider) and gets a nice url like tinco.aka.nu.
2. The user uses this url as an openid url to create an account on stackoverflow.
3. Stackoverflow gets information about the user by querying the url for meta information.
But.. this is exactly what openid does. I have an openid account at myopenid.com, and pointed me.tinco.nl to redirect to it. Now when you go to me.tinco.nl you see my public openid profile. And I log in to stackoverflow with me.tinco.nl as the identifier. And stackoverflow filled in some of the fields with information it got from myopenid.
What is your unique selling point?