[OpenID] Discouraging "anonymous" OpenID users

[Nat Sakimura]

I think its going to be much more interesting once we have a standard
way of expressing these "social capital" a.k.a. "Reputation". That's why
we have started ORMS TC (Open Reputation Management System Technical
Committee) at OASIS Open. That TC will eventually define XML
representation, but the abstract model can be taken into OpenID world to
create another binding here. Actually, that is my intent.

In fact, I might try to get started with such WG in OpenID Foundation in
parallel with OASIS, since people involved are quite different here and
there and more input is better.

Regards,

=nat

SitG Admin wrote:
>> I think this is the essence of why Facebook thinks they are very
>> attractive as an identity provider: the accumulated "social capital"
>> around the identities.
>>     
>
> There are some unofficial "Facebook apps" that provide OpenID using
> the API they've set up; Facebook hasn't crushed these, so I think
> it's fair to assume they aren't *opposed* to OpenID.
>
> Maybe if they can be shown that OpenID is a way to actually *use*
> that "capital" (not much good having money if you can't *spend* it,
> or loan except between other users of your private bank), making
> their offered identity more valuable and in turn attracting more
> users, they'll be persuaded to adopt OpenID officially :)
>
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Nat Sakimura (=nat)
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. 
XDI.ORG Vice Chair