[OpenID] Problems with delegation and directed identity OPs

[Martin Atkins]

Deron Meranda wrote:
> 
> The only thing I see is that the long random alphanumeric strings look
> like garbage output to humans.   I bet that they might scare someone who
> wasn't technical.  And usability is already enough of a concern with OpenID
> that we shouldn't be scaring users with additional unnecessary "line noise".
[snip]
> 
>   https://me.yahoo.com/a/G.4lhbJZk1D-YjBwLCJPM93tC.azJxe7YumU
> 

Indeed. LiveJournal recently updated to support OpenID 2.0 and thus 
allowed Yahoo! identifiers to be used. They display the identifier in 
their site scheme as "You are logged in as http://...", and the length 
of the Yahoo! identifiers makes things look a bit crazy.

A good argument for not showing identifiers directly in the UI, I guess. 
(Or, from the other end, an argument for not using such 
ridiculously-long identifiers!)