[OpenID] OpenID on change.gov

[Eric Norman]

On Nov 27, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Peter Williams wrote:

> Its a request for comments: thats a classical use of openid: and no 
> authority is required to uniquely leave your/a (citable) web id 
> attached to your opinion. Its easy to fllowup with uou, given the 
> inherent linkback to the identity page.

It appears that anyone can leave a comment without the OpenID
stuff or without going through some registration process.
Furthermore, I doubt if they have either the time or motivation
to follow up on anything.  Nevertheless, they do provide you
with a way to provide an optional email address.

Hence, I'll repeat the question.  Why would anyone want to use
OpenID here?  I seems to add nothing more than extra work.

Or let me put it this way.  As of yesterday, there were close
to 3,000 comments on health care.  How many of those do you
think used OpenID to leave their comment?  I'll bet on close
to zero.

> If the founding openid culture doesn't fit with grassroots commenting, 
> where does it fit!?

Where it adds value.

By the way Peter, it seem that your system is the one adding
"LIKELY SPAM" to subject lines.

Eric Norman