[OpenID board] Why Connect?

[Dick Hardt]

OpenID Connect does not look to be building on any of the OpenID technology.

Connect is Discovery + OAuth 2.0 + a standard identity API.

Clearly this is useful for a set of web use cases. 

An alternative approach is to solve discovery with the appropriate components from the "Hammer stack" OR use the OpenID v.Next discovery; and define a standard identity API similar to what Portable Contacts did.

Labelling this as OpenID seems to be hijacking the OpenID brand.

On 2010-05-24, at 5:39 PM, Allen Tom wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> If the proposers believe that OAuth2 implementors need a standards based
> identity API, then it is within the charter of the OIDF to take the lead on
> this.
> 
> Allen
> 
> 
> On 5/24/10 3:44 PM, "Dick Hardt" <dick.hardt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I think that if you want to build identity on top of OAuth, that you should
>> write an OAuth extension.
>