[OpenID] OpenID; a single choice

[Peter Williams]

Hey - me too. I want my brand highlighted too (as do 3000 other ops)

Foaf icon, w3c icon, troops icon, yahoo icon. Privacy icon. 19 favorites mgt icons. Ie icon. Verisign icon. Ev greenbar, greenborder frame color, cert and common name dialogues, https/http mixing warnings

As one inverts the datamodel to allow semweb and web3 mashups and one uses sp-initiated websso (eg openid design), you get obviously a proliferation of middleman activites that make sense of it all, for each trade association buying mashups.

-----Original Message-----
From: tom <tom at barnraiser.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:27 AM
To: OpenID List <general at openid.net>
Subject: [OpenID] OpenID; a single choice

Hi All,

I have just noticed that clickpass is now added to some sign up pages 
such as this one -> https://www.plaxo.com/signin

I was a little harassed by Yahoo introducing a choice into the OpenID 
authentication process (example: "enter OpenID or click for YahooID") 
and now I see a third option ("enter OpenID or click for YahooID or 
click for clickpass"). Doesn't this just open the door for every OP to 
add a "click for X provider login" button? Is it only me that has an 
issue with this given that before long pages will be covered with many 
logos and that I'll end up having to search for the OpenID logo?

I appreciate the "open" aspects of OpenID, but for the user would it not 
be better to have the browser manufacturers agree on a way to store an 
OpenID and auto-direct to my OP rather than giving the user a zillion 
logos on a screen?

Tom




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Tom Calthrop
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