[OpenID board] Why Connect?

[Manger, James H]

Dick,

I would appreciate an expansion of your thoughts (perhaps just a few dot points) on which Internet identity problems or use cases an OAuth-based approach is likely to miss, but OpenID (2.0 or v.Next) is likely to address.

Sometimes I find it hard to remember the bigger picture when swamped with technical details.

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James Manger


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From: openid-specs-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-specs-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Dick Hardt
Sent: Tuesday, 25 May 2010 12:23 PM
To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
Cc: Joseph Smarr; OpenID Board (public); openid-specs at lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Why Connect?

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>> OpenID Connect as currently envisioned misses many of the internet identity
>> use cases.


...I also think Connect has not holistically looked at what the broader internet identity problems are, and is painting itself into an architecture corner.

As a creator of the OAuth hammer, I can see you view this as an OAuth nail. I don't see it that way.

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I see OpenID as a solution for the Internet Identity Problem.  agree that many have viewed OpenID as a protocol, and one that was good enough. OpenID v.Next is queuing up to provide a holistic solution. The process for v.Next was started a couple months ago. As you know, these things take time.