XAuth critiques

[Story Henry]

On 8 Jun 2010, at 07:17, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> If Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and the rest of the companies supporting the OpenID effort deployed the server-side half of this proposal, and spent a little money on developing plug-ins for all the major browsers (with Google and Microsoft able to also include it in the next release of their browser), it will create the tipping point in getting some form of identity selector in the browser.
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> It was one thing for the OpenID community of 3 years ago to hack the protocol around the limitations of that time. These arguments are just insincere when they come from Google, now that you have a pretty successful browser (especially considering its age) and massively huge web footprint to promote such a feature.

Why should browser manufacturers bother to install this in the browser and maintain it, when they already have an excellent identification protocol built into https?

The fact that this group wishes to ignore the existence of SSL does not make it not be there. 

Just check out the video of it on http://webid.myxwiki.org/
to see it working!

Henry