[OpenID] Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb

[Peter Williams]

This will be interesting. Will the rules/principles now change, to accommodate a major brand?

. Uci is the mission (a uri from a bogus op has the same weight in the uci model as one from the phone company provisioning your line to the internet)

. May not set out to directly make money ( cannot sell the linkup to an op, or sell access to the ax attributes of subscribers)

. Must implement support for xri (to be conforming)

. Any rp, anywhere, anytime, can seek authentication and sreg data, on a non discriminatory, no a priori contractual, basis


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From: Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:52 PM
To: Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us>
Cc: OpenID List <general at openid.net>
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb


On 1-Aug-08, at 4:36 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:


On 2008/08/01, at 14:09, Paul Trevithick wrote:
The problem is that this isn’t a technical issue. FB currently has no business incentive to use open technologies ...

I would have said the same thing about Yahoo, AOL etc.... nevertheless they have decided to go the open route.

I would agree with you, but have been proven wrong. Let's simply see what they will do ... I do know that several people from the community have been rolling out the red carpet to them ... whether they walk over it is there own choice. Invited they clearly are.

I think that they are standing on the carpet and peaking in the door to see if the community is willing to work with them.

-- Dick