[OpenID] Trust + Security @ OpenID

Simon Willison simon at simonwillison.net
Mon Jul 16 14:22:25 UTC 2007


On 7/16/07, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) <eddy_nigg at startcom.org> wrote:
> Personally I don't see a problem with it. I'd love to rely on an effort lead
> by the OpenID Foundation.

I believe that a centralised blacklisting or whitelisting effort lead
by the OpenID foundation would not only betray the original
decentralised principles of OpenID, but would also greatly harm
adoption of the standard. A principle reason OpenID stands to gain
adoption where other mechanisms (such as TypeKey and Passport) have
failed is that OpenID is politically neutral - there's no central
organisation running things, which means that there are no political
reasons not to get involved ("I would have implemented OpenID, but I
don't trust X who is on the board that manages the blacklisting
project").

Cheers,

Simon



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