[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Breno de Medeiros]

At this point, you can discover using www.google.com/accounts/o8/id as
your OP identifier if you so wish. However, initially we will require
registration. Thanks.

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgive my apparent ignorance, but this doesn't look like a standard OpenID
> Provider.  I just tried to log into my own RP typing in "google.com" to use
> directed identity, since I have no idea what my own identifier URL would be,
> and no endpoints were found.  Also tried "gmail.com".
> When I read the blog, it mentioned OpenID but the link was to register for
> federated login.  I thought Shibboleth was about federated login and OpenID
> was about letting any RP log into an IDP.  Why does an RP have to register
> with Google before using its IDP?  And even if it registered, that can't
> automatically make "google.com" discoverable, so this doesn't feel like
> OpenID at all to me.
>
> Unhappy, but hoping someone can explain it to me.
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Google's IDP is now live.  You can try it on Plaxo, ZoHo, & Buxfer and
>> hopefully more RPs to come soon.  Here is the blog post with more details,
>> including information on how RPs can sign up to use the service:
>>
>>
>> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-moves-towards-single-sign-on.html
>>
>> And yes, it does allow RPs to request a user's E-mail address via AX as an
>> option.  I'll let Joseph Smarr from Plaxo respond with details on how they
>> are using that feature to further simplify the signup flow for Plaxo.
>> Eric Sachs
>> Product Manager, Google Security
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