[OpenID] Yahoo issue

[Martin Atkins]

Dick Hardt wrote:
> On 4-Feb-08, at 8:54 AM, Peter Williams wrote:
>> Why was this so, in SSL3? Because there was a dominant interworking  
>> partner that essentially defined the basecase (Netscape).  
>> Myopenid.com plays that role, here, surely. Assurance that there  
>> has been comprehensive interworking with myopenid.com is surely  
>> what is called for.
> 
> Why do you think myopenid.com plays that role?
> 

I don't know what Peter was intending, but it could be argued that most 
RPs today are based on one of JanRain's libraries. MyOpenID (as a 
product of JanRain) has presumably been tested extensively against 
JanRain's libraries.

In my initial testing of the work-in-process 2.0 version of the 
Net::OpenID::Consumer perl library, my primary testing target happened 
to be MyOpenID just because it was the most readily-accessible 
2.0-supporting provider about at the time.[1] I ended up treating 
MyOpenID as the base case, though I didn't really think much about it at 
the time.

I think it's fair to say that MyOpenID has become the de-facto reference 
server implementation for now at least.



[1] I also tried to test against Sxipper, but I couldn't make it "see" 
my login form and I wasn't really sure how else to test it.