[OpenID] [OPenID] OpenID usage figures

[Steven Osborn]

My Idea for this is to:

1. Create a community marketing site similar to spreadfirefox.com
2. Publish a public API that requires registration and API key
3. _RPs_  ping the API with their usage data that looks something like:
    md5(user_id)
    md5(email)
    country
    city
    zip_code
4. The foundation ( or spreadopenid llc ) promises not to try to reverse
the hashes or publish them in raw format.
5. The data is then filtered through google maps API's and
graphing/reporting mechanisms.
6. The marketing site homepage ranks RP's based on how many logins they
reported from unique users.  Which gives RP's incentive and doesn't
_force_ us to rely on IdPs publishing list, because many IdP's would not
feel comfortable with providing this data.

Of course this is only one small thing a community marketing site would
do, but it seems like a fun start.


p.s.
Sorry for the direct mail Hans


Hans Granqvist wrote:
>> The number of "usages" - I assume you mean the number of RP
>> authentication requests - to determine that figure, you'd need
>> information from the logs of all OpenID Providers.
>>     
>
> How about devising a dead-simple voluntary protocol where
> an OP (perhaps also RP) could ping, say http://openid.net/usage
> for the sole purpose of collection of such stats?
>
>   GET /usage?op=example.com&event=n HTTP/1.1
>
> where n is an int defining the event (successful auth, sreg used, etc).
>
> (Can be abused, sure. /usage can check source IP to OP for obvious
> system gaming. Maybe that's enough of deterrent.)
>
> Any takers? Shouldn't take more than a day or so to implement. I can
> help if there is anyone who can host the service.
>
> -Hans
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