[OpenID] Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb

[Eric Sachs]

>> I'd like to assemble a group of like-minded individuals/companies and put
together the "glue", extra conventions, user interface optimizations,
whatever is required ... to define an (at least) feature-equivalent open
technology stack that also equals or beats whatever non-open technology
stacks may exist. (not specifically singling out FaceBook Connect here, as I
agree with David on this thread that other social networks et al will come
up with similar things over the next year, too.)

If you have not already seen the Step2 code site, you might check that out:

http://code.google.com/p/step2/

That is where Google and some others are working on combining OpenID & OAuth
to support a user experience that is closer to a FacebookConnect or
YahooBBAuth.  Then on top of that it should be possible to add REST APIs for
things like Portable Contacts.
There is some additional information on these goals that was presented at
the OAuth summit back in June that Yahoo hosted.  You can find that
information in the "Hybrid Protocol" section of this site:

http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/

I'd be interested to know what other "features" people think we should try
to also support that need to be integrated at the AuthZ/AuthN layer as
opposed to higher up in the stack

Eric Sachs
Product Manager, Google Security


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net@
netmesh.us> wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2008, at 14:35 , Dick Hardt wrote:
>
>  ... and I think the user experience is
>> superior with Facebook Connect than OpenID.
>>
>
> Very likely. For this reason, I started this thread in the first place ...:
>
> I'd like to assemble a group of like-minded individuals/companies and put
> together the "glue", extra conventions, user interface optimizations,
> whatever is required ... to define an (at least) feature-equivalent open
> technology stack that also equals or beats whatever non-open technology
> stacks may exist. (not specifically singling out FaceBook Connect here, as I
> agree with David on this thread that other social networks et al will come
> up with similar things over the next year, too.)
>
> The focus would not be spec development per se, but integration of what
> exists and optimization etc.
>
> Some hands so far were raised, here is another opportunity to say you are
> interested ;-) Please let me know ...
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Johannes.
>
>
>
> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
>
>
>
>
>  http://netmesh.info/jernst
>
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