[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

[Johannes Ernst]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 14:16, Peter Williams wrote:
> "I think this is all progressing nicely. No, we are not anywhere close
> to a "mainstream market", this is still at the transition between the
> tech enthusiasts and the first business visionaries. And in my view,
> everything is happening that needs to happen to take that transition.
> Convincing mainstream developers (as opposed to developers working
> for visionaries) is later in that cycle, in my view, so personally, I
> don't spend much of my energies on that."
>
> This is an excellent summary; Ill assume you are speaking the way  
> the OpenID Foundation generally feels about the outlook.

Hey, I'm not trying to make a statement on behalf of anybody except  
perhaps myself, but I certainly can't speak for the foundation. Not  
sure the foundation has an official opinion on this anyway or should  
have ;-)

<lots of good stuff deleted ...>

> .. but I just don't thing we want to precipitate association of the  
> brand with - "its only for blogging, and blog syndication."

I think this is an important one. The OpenID "brand" and what it  
should stand for. I would very much appreciate more discussion, and  
the participation of more people with an opinion on this subject ...  
and I suspect the rest of the board members of the foundation, too.

Cheers,



Johannes.



Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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