[OpenID] Weighing In on TechCrunch's "Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies?"

[Dick Hardt]

On 24-Mar-08, at 2:29 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:

> Dick Hardt:
>>
>> I don't agree Eddy. I don't want to use OpenID in its current form  
>> to log into gmail or Yahoo mail.
>>
>> I do think the big sites should support attribute exchange as well  
>> as roll their sleeves up to advance OpenID Tech so that we *can*  
>> use it to securlylog into sensitive sites.
> Hehe...depends on your view about what a sensitive site is :-)

yep!

I think we would agree that in general, writing a comment on a blog is  
NOT a sensitive operation. :)

>
>
> But then, isn't it a shortcoming of the OpenID foundation and/or  
> framework? I'd rather see the foundation take up their sleeves than  
> have us bend by big providers at their terms...the foundation's feet  
> dragging will result in exactly that. Which isn't really what joe- 
> early-adopter had in mind, or am I mistaken here?

It is a shortcoming of the tech. The Foundation is there to promote  
OpenID and to facilitate the development of specs -- NOT to develop  
the specs themselves.

I'm not saying the Big Vendors should solve it by themselves,  but  
that they should direct some of their engineers to work with the  
community to solve it for the community as a whole.

-- Dick