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

[SitG Admin]

>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

This works up until the point where it turns out that someone else 
has already taken your username - and the second one you try, and the 
third. OpenID, by contrast, prevents anyone else from taking your 
username; though the URL pieces such as "SiteName.com" may be 
undesirable, you can usually find a site where "YourFavoriteUserName" 
is not yet taken, and have "YourFavoriteUserName.SiteName.com" as 
your Identity.

The objection *then* might be "But how will people know there's a 
difference between "YourFavoriteUserName.SiteName.com" and 
"YourFavoriteUserName.AnotherSiteName.com"?" - there's a similar 
protest here:
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-095.txt
And the answer is, of course, the same as if you have two friends 
named "Steve"; you don't insist that one of them pick a different 
name so you can tell them apart! Even if both of them are named Steve 
Gibson, you just find *other* qualities by which you can tell them 
apart (such as their physical appearance or the sound of their 
voice), so you can distinguish between the two in person. When you're 
*not* dealing with them in person, you learn their handwriting or 
require them to prove their affiliation with some website - and you 
don't need to assume that the Steve Gibson at "grc.com" is the same 
as the Steve Gibson at "EvilSite.com" just because they both share 
the same name! What are we, 5-year-olds?
http://www.schneier.com/paper-pki-ft.txt
If the "SiteName.com" part is assigned the place of a "last name", it 
may both be easier for a normal user to understand, and seem less 
intrusive upon their Identity for its importance; if the 
"SiteName.com" is only to specify the "family" of usernames to which 
*your* username belongs, it may be more acceptable. The 
responsibility of each "family", in turn, will be to make sure that 
noone has the same *first* name within that group, and you can look 
around for a family to help find one where your preferred "first 
name" (username) is not yet taken, but *which* family you settle on 
doesn't necessarily mean anything.

-Shade
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