[OpenID] OpenID Description?

[Stephen Edgar]

Hi OpenID List!

This is my first post to the list and I am not bad myself on understanding OpenID and some implementations on the tech front though I received via another mail list the following and was hoping someone could point me to some articles/links to address the following:-

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Can anyone point to an accessible description of OpenID?

Like a lot of open source, the sites and the documentation are very
much by-geeks/for-geeks.

I suspect that it's just a latter-day MS Passport, but with:
-   open specs
-   more adopters (among corporations, if not among people)
-   the scope for stronger linkage between the id and the entity
-   the intention that each person have only one id

But I'd welcome any leads to a description or analysis somewhere
between the sales blarney at:  http://www.openid.org/
and the highly segmented and detailed (and of course necessary)
tech-speak at:  http://openid.net/developers/specs/

Thanks!

Roger Clarke                  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/
Visiting Professor in Info Science & Eng  Australian National University
Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program      University of Hong Kong
Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre      Uni of NSW
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Regards,

Stephen Edgar
Stephen at netweb.com.au