[OpenID] Step2 (was: Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb)

[Johannes Ernst]

I had not seen that one.

Can I ask why this work has not been done under the umbrella of the  
OIDF? It appears that 3 of the 4 listed editors are / work for OpenID  
Foundation board members.

(But to be clear, this is only one of the several (many?) things that  
I think would need to happen ...)

On Sep 16, 2008, at 15:04 , Eric Sachs wrote:

> >> 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 at 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.
>
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