[OpenID] Microsoft and OpenID Q&A

[Eric Norman]

On Feb 21, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> Since Bill Gates endorsed OpenID on stage recently, lots of people 
> have been asking questions (followed by stating opinions...) about 
> what the relationship between Microsoft and the OpenID community is, 
> should or should not be.
>
> I'd like to collect your questions, and make sure they get discussed, 
> hopefully answered and documented somewhere. Please respond either on 
> the list or personally. (Some people might not be comfortable asking 
> publicly -- yep, it does happen, in particular on that kind of 
> subject. Anonymous questions are fine ;-))
>
> Here are some questions that I have collected so far.
>
> 1. Has Microsoft made any commitment to implement OpenID in any 
> product? If so, which?
>
> 2. Has the OpenID Community committed to support any WS-* protocols? 
> If so, which and how?
>
> 3. Hang on, how can the OpenID Community commit to anything (WS-* or 
> anything else), given that it is self-organizing and not "managed" by 
> anybody?
>
> 4. What would be the advantages / disadvantages of using Microsoft's 
> CardSpace with OpenID?

4a.  (More detailed)  What are the strengths of one that are weaknesses 
of the other?

5.  What changes (installation, behavior, other software) will need to 
happen?

6.  Will a large population "all have to jump at once" to effect 
deployment?

7.  Which parts (code, protocols, etc) of each will be discarded (no 
longer useful)?