[OpenID] OpenID; a single choice

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Jørn Wildt:
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> OpenID wants you to put the OpenID logo right beside the OpenID input, 
> isn’t that just as bad J
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It helps to recognize the option to login with OpenID, the eye gets 
trained to look for it...so it's certainly a good strategy...
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> But it is probably unavoidable – if Yahoo! and others implement OpenID 
> then they want to make sure everybody knows it and use them as OPs 
> since it will drive traffic to their sites. Had it not been 
> logo-buttons then it had been something else.
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Except that Yahoo doesn't let you login with your OpenID (in relation to 
what I posted previously). But besides that you are right...
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> Regards, Jørn Wildt
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> *From:* general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] 
> *On Behalf Of *Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
> *Sent:* 12. marts 2008 16:06
> *To:* tom
> *Cc:* OpenID List
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenID] OpenID; a single choice
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> tom:
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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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