[OpenID] OpenID on change.gov

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Tue Dec 2 04:50:08 UTC 2008


>Wow... a 1.1-only relying party! I though they were the stuff of legend!
>How fortunate we are to discover one in its natural habitat!

At least I'm not worried about compatibility with my v1.1 provider ;D

>Seriously though, it's a shame that IntenseDebate can't deal with OpenID
>2.0, since that takes out of the picture all of the "big" providers and
>limits them to accepting only niche providers. And because of that,
>change.gov can't actually accept the OpenID identifiers that most users
>have available to them.

If change.gov compensates for this by educating users about how they 
can create and/or select their own niche providers (thus taking power 
AWAY from the "big" providers and delivering it to individuals and 
small communities), would that change anything?

-Shade



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