[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research
John Panzer
jpanzer at acm.org
Tue Oct 14 18:16:16 UTC 2008
Eric Sachs wrote:
> ...
> And those UI guidelines are complete overkill for a website who is
> willing to just use a single IDP and completely eliminate its own
> legacy login system.
I think you're saying that an RP has the option of using the OpenID
protocol, bound to a specific IDP, simply to avoid building its own
login system. I guess so, but in this case OpenID itself is overkill
(and is an implementation detail -- SAML or OAuth or an IDP-specific
protocol could solve the problem nearly as well). I don't think the
OpenID community should discourage this use of the protocol under the
hood, but from a branding perspective I think it would be bad as well as
confusing to users to have OpenID even mentioned.
John
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