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

[Johnny Bufu]

On 02/08/08 03:00 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> My comments were specific about the technical details of their platform. 
> The fact that instead of using a community specification they decided to 
> create yet another protocol is what I was referring to. I would give 
> them a high score if they used OAuth but still kept their system closed 
> and data private. They could have created the exact same product by 
> building it on top of OAuth. They could have also made it friendlier to 
> OpenID or even use OpenID as the basis but I think OAuth would have been 
> an easier match and lighter on the politics.

I would be interested to learn directly from Facebook what their high 
level requirements were and why they chose not to use OAuth/OpenID.

Since I haven't seen anyone from Facebook commenting on the openid 
general list, what channels would they prefer? Dick, do you have any 
insights here?


Johnny