[OpenID] is openid 2.0 a lightweight identity system?
Hans Granqvist
hgranqvist at verisign.com
Thu Feb 8 23:45:15 UTC 2007
Christopher St John wrote:
> [1] WS-* is an absolute nightmare. Kitchen-sink approach,
> all the warring spec-writers happy, users absolutely miserable.
Not sure why users would care about the underlying specs. Or
did you mean 'developers'?
> Half-implemented, badly implemented, incorrectly implemented,
> dozens of options, etc. Ugly stuff.
You *could* say the same about many OpenID implementations,
too!
WS-Security is elegant, especially considering the
tremendous constraints imposed by XML and SOAP processing.
-Hans
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