[OpenID] MySpace announces OP support

[Peter Williams]

I think this community is mature enough to rejoice in adoption by a major brand - even if it is not the purest of adoptions. The web is built one adoption at a time. As the obvious benefits flow, folks do more...

The benefits of websso are just obvious. Of the 50 sites we armed with websso over the last 18 months (and we have 36 more, grassroots, "local adoptions" in the queue just within US realty), none have ever turned it off. They have stayed with the program - even distinguishing between poor implementation (i.e. Peter grade programming/operations) and concept, when things stop working for a bit. They are just annoyed...at the lack of the very websso they soon are taking for granted.

AS the very topic of "id sharing" stresses commercial interests and invokes lots of politics, its critical to AVOID being doctrinaire.

Learn from SSL! As soon as we dumped the military PKI religion being imposed on IETF, we got mass web adoption (and an F thereafter in the exam following the military key management class)! Quite what that adoption became.. is rather amorphous in nature, and hard to define academically. But, mass adoption there was, at varying grades of quality!

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of John Panzer
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:29 AM
To: OpenID List
Subject: [OpenID] MySpace announces OP support

Great!  Does anyone have details on timing?  (I missed this news item
yesterday, I'm amazed I don't see it on this list...):

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/myspace-to-join-openid-bringing-total-enabled-accounts-to-over-a-half-billion/

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