[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

[Hans Granqvist]

On 9/2/07, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) <eddy_nigg at startcom.org> wrote:
>
>  John Panzer wrote:
>
> Hans Granqvist wrote:
>
>  2. "I am not a URL." OpenID sees users as web resources, but
> identifying yourself with a URL (any type) is geeky and a hurdle
> to wide adoption.
>
>  This is not an argument that Yet Another Namespace isn't annoying, but
> that there is suggestive history that this isn't a long term problem.
>
>  I think, that's the weakest argument "against" OpenID. With todays
> blogger mentality, a URL makes even sense - specially with bloggers as a
> target for adoption in mind. Aren't those URI's exactly like OpenID URI's?
> Something like
>

Sure, if all you want is that bloggers use OpenID, then no problem, but I'd
hoped we all
aspired for it to be more than that. Or no? Is OpenID just an authentication
mechanism for the blogosphere?

http://myname.weblong.com or http://weblog.com/myname ? That's about as bad
> as "myname" as user name...
>

How do you figure? Do you really think there is no diff for the common end
user if BofA
says "Your user name is http://users.bankofamerica.com/xyzzy" vs. "Your user
name
is xyzzy"?

-Hans
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