[OpenID] OpenID on change.gov

[Sam Alexander]

Eric, you are confusing adoption and usefulness. While you are right,  
there are probably very few OpenID-backed comments, OpenID's  
usefulness is an entirely different question.

OpenID remains a powerful extension of Identity on the web. While a  
common username/email comment adds no RECIPROCAL value to the  
commentor, an OpenID comment WOULD. It would allow that comment to be  
attributed to a specific, verified URL owner.

While few of the 3,000 commentors may be aware of this value. The  
added value still exists.

- Sam Alexander

On Nov 27, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Eric Norman <ejnorman at doit.wisc.edu> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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