[OpenID] Clickpass: Making OpenId easier

[Peter Williams]

Yahoo are to my knowledge entirely openid-standards conforming - having used the consensus process to get into openid2 the additional features they saw as necessary for mainstream adoption (RP discovery, and directed id). 

Anything that the participating RP does to cooperate with Yahoo can be done with any other conforming OP (apart from letting the OP key off the pretty - but - not strictly necessary - Yahoo button, that is)

It sounds like clickpass is working as an proxy + account linking service to RPs. That is, from its an RP aggregation proxy.

interesting to see just how fast the UCI model broke down! In such a RP-proxying model, the user expressing his/her controls via the OP has no visibility on the trust-root of the downstream "target" RPs, via the openid auth protocol's privacy controls.





From: Immad Akhund
Sent: Wed 3/12/2008 9:08 AM
To: Nat Sakimura
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Clickpass: Making OpenId easier


Hi Nat,

Clickpass does quite a few things that Yahoo! doesn't; in order to try and make the OpenID experience smooth for the user and easier to implement for sites. From the user side

- Clickpass submits a different OpenID for every site, so we can do login in one click. The yahoo procedure is more cumbersome.
- Provides a consistent interface to allow users to merge/signup to accounts on the relying party
- Gives a nice launch page to log in to your common sites
- Lets you easily save and use OpenIDs from different providers
- Gonna add a bunch more things, like security, more attribute exchange stuff etc.

For sites

- We support OpenID 1.1 still which more sites are compatable with.
- We work easily with multiple OpenID providers
- Make it easier to implement OpenID by trying to take care case of he merge/signup stuff for new users
- And again we got a bunch more things in the pipeline, including better stats etc.

Hope that helps. Yahoo definitely took a step in the right direction, we are hoping to do a lot more.

Immad


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

Hmmm....  


What is the differnce between Yahoo! button and ClickPass button???


Perhaps ClickPass let you login to non-openid sites as well? 


=nat
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