[OpenID] On OpenID 2.0

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Kevin Turner wrote:
> 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.

Plone 3.0-beta2 (to be released today) will. The implemenation Plone
uses works for all Zope 2 applications as well.

Support for OpenID 2.0 was not a conscious decision; supporting it
is a side-effect of modifying the code to be compatible with the 
upcoming 2.0 version of the OpenID python package. I suspect that is
going to be the main driver for getting people so support OpenID: the
availability of easy to use, well documented, standard libraries.

> 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.

As someone who implemented OpenID support for Zope: I never read the
specs and I have no interest doing so. For me it is all about usable
standard libraries being available.

Wichert.

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