[OpenID board] Why Connect?

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Tue May 25 01:20:28 UTC 2010


On 2010-05-24, at 6:08 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> The question is:
> 
> Is the OIDF interested in taking the lead in building an identity layer for OAuth 2.0?
> 
> I'm willing to bet that if the answer is no, it will be the beginning of the end for OpenID. OAuth 2.0 + identity will fully cover the OpenID 2.0 use cases in a cleaner, more secure way.

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

> 
> This is very much an issue of timing. If the problem is the name, call it the "OAuth Identity Framework",

OpenID Connect has very little to do with OpenID, and lots to do with OAuth. That sounds like a better name.

> leaving OpenID to be whatever the v.next WG decides it will be a year or two from now.

That sounds like a challenge I am will to take on. :)

-- Dick


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