[OpenID] OpenID; a single choice

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

tom:
> 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?
>   
This has been anticipated and was obvious (even by design). OpenID has 
refused to address the issues of a trust point or federated network of 
OpenID operators and this is the result. There are and will be many 
sites which will trust only their own or a very narrow choice of OpenID 
providers.

When making these suggestions more then 1 1/2 years ago I was booed 
down....something about "taking away the freedom to operate randomly 
OPs" was mentioned many times. Well, you can blame these idiots today 
for refusing to address this issue, because, yeah...their freedom is 
going to be taken away by reality now,  and not by providing and 
organizing a framework which would have allow RPs to trust OPs according 
to agreed rules and accepted standards. In a federated network of OPs 
and some established criteria everybody could trust anybody....

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