Web Access Management
Gabe Wachob
gabe.wachob at amsoft.net
Fri Apr 6 00:43:28 UTC 2007
Is that really true Mart?
Isn't it at least as much the perception that OpenID isn't usable by
organizations acting as RP's that cannot manage the risk associated with
accepting an authentication assertion from OP "out there"? That is, the
perception is that OpenID is good for Jyte and blog comments, but not for
anything serious or of value (on the RP side)?
This perception is reasonable from some points of view.
And there's the Phishing concerns...
I do think the IPR stuff is an issue (of course), but I don't think it's the
main reason there isn't more interest from the big (RP-oriented) players
yet. I think there's been little said to assuage the above concerns because
many of the folks here aren't interested, as a matter of world-view, in the
problems of large RP's who have business risks associated with unknown OP's.
Those risks *can* be addressed and/or mitigated in a number of interesting
ways, but we're still pretty early on in the development of OpenID as a
deployed infrastructure now...
-Gabe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
> Of Martin Atkins
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:41 PM
> To: specs at openid.net
> Subject: Re: Web Access Management
>
> Hans Granqvist wrote:
> >> Ping demoed OpenID technology at RSA.
> >>
> >> I hear Novell and IBM are looking at supporting OpenID.
> >>
> >> Microsoft has said they will in future products.
> >>
> >> Oracle and CA are following OpenID.
> >>
> >> So, yes. :-)
> >>
> >
> > I'm curious why almost all of these companies are non-existent
> > on the mailing lists. Any insights?
> >
>
> It seems that at this time the uncertain policies for issues such as
> patents and trademarks surrounding OpenID are putting off larger
> companies from directly participating.
>
> This is a current hot-topic for the OpenID Foundation, since getting
> such companies fully on board would likely be beneficial.
>
>
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