[OpenID] What are openids weaknesses?

Dave Kearns dkearns at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 16:03:39 UTC 2007


From: John Panzer
>
> > Good point. So what should the terminology be?
> > e.g.
> >  - my home page
>
> That's so 90's... :)
>
> >  - my web address
> +1 -- at least I think non-techies have the most chance of understanding
> this one.

Understand, perhaps, but as it's a brand new construction it will take a
great deal of marketing to inculcate the term in people's minds.

And, of course, all this emphasis on URLs completely ignores iNames...

What's wrong with the well known term "identifier"?

-dave




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