[OpenID] Changes to the OpenID Foundation member page login

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

I don't really have much of a say on this (other than being a new member)
and you may 100% disagree with me, but IMHO there *is* an argument that in
using best of breed products we can demonstrate the power of OpenID to users
... compared with the cost/effort to implement something that already does a
really good job.

I do understand the endorsement aspect, but on the other hand the UX is the
biggest issue OpenID seems to have at the moment and it seems to me that
using such products (so long as they are donated as such and not specific
long term to any one company) can only be a positive thing.

Put another way, last week I couldn't even log in. Today I can log in and it
was a nice experience.

Regards,
Steven
http://livz.org


-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Scott Kveton
Sent: 05 December 2008 18:46
To: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Changes to the OpenID Foundation member page login

> I also have no problem using a vendor product if it serves the needs and
> interests of the foundation if 1) the relationship between the vendor and
> foundation is made clear 2) the decision-making process for selecting the
> product is transparent and 3) efforts are made to make the use of the
> product transparent and to not appear as though the foundation does or
does
> not endorse the vendor or the product.

+1 on the usability but -1 on the endorsement of a member's product by the
OIDF.

David and I have worked hard over the last couple of years to not give
preferential treatment to any one vendors' products on openid.net.  An
example was when David reminded me about the default Identity in the
browser (IDIB) being enabled on openid.net (its included with wpopenid
by default for Wordpress).  I agreed and we made sure to disable it as
it is technically a project that is driven by my company (Vidoop)
although we're doing the best we can to make it an open solution.

Can anybody enlighten us on the points that Chris raises?  How did we
decide to use this solution?  What should the OIDF be doing here?

- Scott
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