[OpenID] Blogger now an OpenID Provider

[Peter Williams]

The real test of "UCI adoption" (versus "openid auth" adoption) for me is : can one as a subscriber of record (aka legally accountable) author login to Blogger, using one's chosen openid (possibly managed by a skip or VeriSign plugin). The subscriber-grade enforcing "accountability" feature contrasts to merely: can one leave an "authenticated comment" using openid, rather than Blogger using an HTTP Referer header field for the same, "best effort" purpose.
 
But, we are splitting hairs - the movement is obviously doing just fine, and trouncing the alternatives.
 
We just have to recognize the limits of what we do here. If we are building a Mach kernel enhancement and want to have Mach's IPC layer leverage a policy decision server to help us enforce a non-discretionary mandatory policy imposed on all relying parties in a domain of only certain RPs, we probably will NOT be using openid AX to determine the current status of the policy enforcement lattice! We may well use AX to populate a form, on the relying party registration wizard, tho, that a consumer/subject could then review.

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From: David Recordon [mailto:drecordon at sixapart.com]
Sent: Sun 1/20/2008 2:54 PM
To: Peter Williams
Cc: John Panzer; OpenID List
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Blogger now an OpenID Provider



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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