[OpenID] Google OpenID IDP is now live

[Dick Hardt]

"www.google.com/accounts/o8/id"?

gosh, I'll remember that one! :-)

Given the non memorable openid generated by Google, I'd be interested  
in how Google thinks users will login with their OpenID if they can't  
type in gmail.com or google.com -- these should work. Will they?

-- Dick

On 29-Oct-08, at 10:38 AM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:

> 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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