[OpenID] Blogger now an OpenID Provider

David Recordon drecordon at sixapart.com
Sun Jan 20 22:54:10 UTC 2008


Hey Peter,
Blogger has been a RP for around a month now. :)

--David

On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Peter Williams wrote:

> 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.
> --
>
> Enjoy!
>
> -John
>
>
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