Alternative identity server models (SPEC-23)

[matrixbot]

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?

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-23)

(Reported by @ara4n)

[matrixbot]

Jira watchers: @ara4n

[uhoreg]

related to #203 ?

[richvdh]

Duplicate of #203