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

[Breno de Medeiros]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Ernst
<jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us> wrote:
> 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:

We are working under the assumption that having a proof-of-concept
implementation (better, several interoperable implementations by
different parties) would be a good sanity-check that the proposal is
sound and not just wishful thinking.

We have every intention of asking the OpenID foundation to sponsor
this initiative in the not-distant time-frame.

>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  http://netmesh.info/jernst
>>
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