[OpenID] OpenID in India - What stops you from using OpenID?

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Jeetendra Mirchandani:
>
> This is a question for all those website owners in India, who have 
> been around for a while, and those who have started new ventures 
> recently. Let me list down possible reasons I can think of, as if I 
> were to own a website targeted towards Indians
>

All of the above might be correct (from the point of view of the web 
site owners of course). Here my $0.02....

>    1. Indian users dont know what OpenID is
>

Very likely! Isn't this the reason for your foundation and mission thereof?

>    1. Your traffic is reluctant to use a URL as a username, they are
>       just more comfortable with the old traditional way of having a
>       user name and password
>    2. You, the website owner, wants to build a user base. And users
>       signing in via an OpenID aren't really users that you own (Or
>       atleast thats what you think?)
>

 From the user perspective that's certainly not really valid. For OpenID 
users, when offered OpenID login on a site they are more willing to 
register then without. It's only the authentication which is 
"outsourced" not the user base itself. That's a point which needs 
education perhaps.

>    1. You don't trust that OpenID provider is secure enough. You are
>       responsible for any user data, and don't want the third-party
>       provider to be involved in how secure your user data is
>

Allow only providers you trust. It's easy as that.

>    1. OpenID implementation is very complicated
>

This is a valid point and most popular blogs, forums require some extra 
work to have OpenID login. Certainly for implementing your own login 
facility. Until the big web applications don't ship OpenID built-in 
(like WordPress, Phpbb forum, wikimedia) this is a hurdle.

> With the same argument, point 4 is also not totally valid! A user 
> understands who to trust, and build up that trust over time. With big 
> players like Yahoo providing OpenID <http://openid.yahoo.com/>, I 
> think this barrier is gone.
>

I don't view Yahoo as a secure provider, sorry.

> And if you say OpenID implementation is complicated, you need to look 
> around. The developers section on openid.net 
> <http://openid.net/developers/>could be a good starting point.
>

That's a lame argument. For many implementation is impossible or very 
burdensome. See above...the most popular web applications need to ship 
OpenID built-in!


Regards
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