[OpenID] OpenID based on email addresses... Just Works!

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Mon Nov 3 05:22:59 UTC 2008


>4. OpenID is succeeding because it works with the web that we have,
>not the web that we want.

+1: it's good to be prepared for the future, but primarily for 
compatibility, or at the most trying to gently lead users into that 
future (and we'd better have a solid relationship with the global 
userbase before we try something like that). If users are comfortable 
with a weaker security model (and here I assume that users will be 
acting in both their traditional roles, *and* as RP's), let them have 
it - don't make OpenID an elite technology that ONLY secure entities 
(such as banks and governments) can use.

-Shade



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