[OpenID] New OpenID Customer Research Activity -Google research on federated login

[Drummond Reed]

> Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> I'm getting the feeling, at this juncture, that having an OpenID shim on
> top of a robust SAML (and assured hardware crypto) - with all that mature
> use case based modeling of the whole spectrum of issues- was a good move
> on my part.  I do feel that XRI could play a much greater role on a
> "business-class" openid that it does today without losing the UCIness of
> OpenID; but I also believe hardly anyone agrees with me.

Peter, I think most folks in the XRI community would agree with you -- I
certainly do -- but that community is still small in comparision with the
volume of URL and email address users, and the evolutionary step to abstract
identifiers is not going to happen overnight.

=Drummond