[OpenID] Supporting OpenID

[Will Merydith]

Thanks Paul.  Is the 'directed identity' feature unique to Yahoo!'s
implementation or is it part of the OpenID spec?

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Madsen <paulmadsen at rogers.com> wrote:

> Will,
>
> 1) the opaque characters you are seeing in the Yahoo OpenIDs support
> enhanced privacy (by inhibiting correlation), its a feature called 'directed
> identity'
>
> 2) what you perceive as Google support for OpenID actually has nothing to
> to with Google
>
> 3) Microsoft does not (yet?) support OpenID
>
> paul
>
> Will Merydith wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to understand what it actually means when Google, MSFT and
> > Yahoo! mean when they say they support OpenID.
> > We've been testing our implementation of OpenID on our systems, and at
> > the same time pitching the concept and power of OpenID to our clients (major
> > music companies like WMG and Sony).  Yet our testing is showing some discord
> > between the OpenID logo mashups (you've seen them where MSFT, Google, Yahoo!
> > and OpenID are all in the same logo cluster) and the reality.
> >
> > I wanted to verify our perception.
> >
> > Yahoo! (and Flickr) - we've got it working,  it would have been a snap
> > except that Yahoo! is appending an alpha numeric string to the end of the
> > identity URL.  We cannot find documentation detailing the purpose of that
> > string.
> >
> > Google - completely broken, and when a user tries to use a Google OpenID
> > identity, they get a message from Google that says, "Warning: this is
> > currently buggy, and it's not high enough priority to spend time on right
> > now. Hopefully I'll get to it soon!"
> >
> > MSFT - cannot find any implementation, despite language from Microsoft
> > and the community claiming "Microsoft *is* supporting OpenID".  Is their a
> > timeline for support or documentation on the MSFT site detailing the
> > implementation?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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