[OpenID] On OpenID 2.0

[Kevin Turner]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 10:42 -0700, Granqvist, Hans wrote:
> * Do you see anything *negative* around finalizing 2.0?

There's the one thing I wanted reverted that I think I got agreement
on[1], but unfortunately I've lost my credentials to the SVN server.
There's a patch attached to this message if any editors would be kind
enough to apply it.

> * If you have a RP: why are you waiting with implementing 
>   2.0?  Is 1.1 good enough?  Are you waiting for the spec 
>   to be final?  Do security concerns hold you back?

Well, with the spec not being final, I don't blame people for not
putting 2.0 in the field.  It's hard to know what lurkers are thinking,
but I get some signs every now and then that there are people thinking
about OpenID, they have heard 2.0 is in the pipeline, and they're just
waiting for it do be done before they invest in it.

Despite that, there's been some great activity around the Python 2.0
release candidate in the past few weeks.  Wichert tells us the next
Plone 3.0 beta will support OpenID 2.0, Johannes Berg has some patches
to MoinMoin's current development branch, Martin Paljak has been doing
some very interesting work with Ideelabor.  Feedback from these folks
and others has helped us shake a few remaining issues out of this
implementation.

Many of those issues have been with our library's documentation, some
with the implementation, but none have really called for spec changes of
any sort.  I certainly support declaring 2.0 to be done.

 - Kevin

1: http://openid.net/pipermail/specs/2007-April/001472.html

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