[OpenID] Blogger now an OpenID Provider

[Peter Williams]

I tink the test of openid (the movement) taking is in the willingness to be an RP. Being an OP is somewhat interesting (since some or other websso protocol is taking off). But the UCI component of openid depends on RP adoption. If we have lots of OPs and no mainstream RPs then UCI is not "succeeding".
 
Personally, I'd award medals for just making the WebSSO protocol get adopted widely - whether or not UCI is adopted.
 
Just look at the progress in the last year!
 
AOL - websso OP
Yahoo - websso OP
Live.com - websso WsFedSTSOverHttp
Google - SAML2-SP, google-proprietary websso IDP
 
 
 
Peter.
 
It's also great to see Yahoo <http://developer.yahoo.com/openid/>  announcing <http://blogs.computerworld.com/yahoo_joins_the_openid_party_and_errord>  that they'll be an OpenID 2.0 Provider. I hope they implement RP support soon too, at least for things like Flickr comments.
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Enjoy!

-John