[OpenID] Identity in the browser - IDIB

[Scott Kveton]

> Not to rain on anyones parade but why not just use the program seatbelt
> from verisign? I have been using it for months now it allows me to use
> different openid's and it protects against phishing. Why reinvent the
> wheel? All that has to happen is for the openid providers to add a
> simple file to their website making their openid's work with seatbelt.
> Sure its proprietary and not "open source" but it allows any openid
> provider to use it, and it works with FF 3.0 right now and has for many
> months.

One of the reasons for doing the extension is to get identity in the
browser "figured out" ... what will it look like?  How do you include
any/all providers?  How do you make it more usable?  Ideally the work
product of this will be an extension but in the future, this (IMHO)
functionality should be baked into the browsers.  To do that, we have
to start somewhere and that's what we're doing with IDIB.

As for Seatbelt, I agree, its actually a great product but it is not
open source.  I'd love to use Seatbelt as a basis for this work if
Verisign would be willing to open source it ... :-)

- Scott