Some more commentary on my mIDm proposal. Johannes Ernst writes "it does not allow a user to use different identifiers as easily as we do in LID (Lightweight Identity)." I disagree - using the User Agent Switcher, changing identities is as easy as selecting your preference from a drop-down menu. Moreover, the big different between LID and my proposal isn't the way I get around the need to type in your URL (though it does that), it's that it avoids the need to make changes to the server as a Super-User (something most of us can't do). Meanwhile, Xageroth Sekarius quite rightly takes me to task for criticizing device-specific authentication in one paper and recommending browser-specific access in the next. He also expresses some valid concerns about privacy. Again, the answer to the latter lies in one's ability to turn it on and off or to switch identities. To the former, let me say for now that the answer is more involved than I can outline here, but that an answer is forthcoming.
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