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

[Peter Williams]

Lets say US patent office makes available a "blog comenting form" on some patent-related appeal, asking for public comments. Authenticated comments received by date X will be examined in the patent examiner and appeal process.... says the federal register notice.

Are we saying, that openid2 is useless for this application?

Are we back to, openid2 is 11,000 blogging sites where you too can leave an authenticated comment, with probably a useless-quality audit trial?


Can some give me URLs to just 100 openid relying party sites ? 100 wordpress/blogger sites does not count, unless the user had to take significant initiative to choose to adopt openid (i.e. probably have to tech config, to make it work).I want to focus on the openid "CCA" story, if possible, per Rahman's Openid book.

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From: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Sent: Mon 3/24/2008 2:29 PM
To: Dick Hardt
Cc: david at sixapart.com; openid-general List
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Weighing In on TechCrunch's "Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies?"


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 :-)

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?



I posted more about this at:
http://identity20.com/?p=147


-- Dick 


On 24-Mar-08, at 1:24 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:

David, are you really surprised by that? Why can't or don't want the big providers rely on other OpenID providers? Think...

David Recordon:

What do you all think about the balance between large companies being  
providers (helping to create an ecosystem where everyone will have an  
OpenID) versus also becoming relying parties?
  
That's were OpenID will be missing the point really. Should have AOL or Yahoo announced to allow login to their respective accounts with OpenID (any OpenID), this would have been real support and also real news. Right now, it doesn't look too good IMO :-(



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