[OpenID] Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb

[Johannes Ernst]

Like others, I've been amazed about what Facebook has put together  
with Facebook Connect as announced last week.

Their proposition for relying parties seems to be:

  - single-sign-on across the web with a simple user experience
  - high-quality identity information available to RPs
  - social network information available to RPs
  - communication from RP into the social network of the user

and IMHO, that is indeed a great business proposition for RPs.

Of course, they seem to be building this with Facebook-specific  
protocols, but that's not surprising given that the OpenID technology  
stack right now is insufficient to accomplish what they wanted to  
accomplish. But not dramatically so -- it might just be plugging some  
other technologies into OpenID (like XFN or FOAF etc.) and filling in  
some gaps if one wanted to do that.

So ... methinks we should grow the OpenID stack over the next 6-12  
months to be able to do all of this (and more?) with open  
technologies. This would also make OpenID much more interesting to  
relying parties...

Open protocols are clearly necessary to grow the entire market, which  
would be in the interest of everybody including Facebook.

Anybody up to getting an OpenID working group started up to work on  
this?

[Feel free to respond on the list or privately.]



Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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