[OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?

Tue Aug 25 19:22:55 UTC 2009

It's a small but significant step forward.

Business-wise they'd never get the go ahead to just release OpenID to the wild.

Moving in the right direction tho'.

steven
http://livz.org

From: pwilliams at rapattoni.com
To: sccpffm at gmail.com; openid-general at lists.openid.net
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:46:22 -0700
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?

That is the question that many analysts are now asking; now
there is something to bother asking about.

Is openid a movement that simply defined some bit of technology from
which vendors build private authentication networks?

Or is openid an open standard that requires no vendor-vendor
setup to let users interwork?

There are two things to measure: what the foundation says, and
what one can measure as praxis of the larger corporate players.

From:
openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net
[mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Carsten
Pötter

Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:15 AM

To: openid-general at lists.openid.net

Subject: [OpenID] Facebook Cooperation with German Email Providers?

Yesterday German email providers Web.de and GMX released a
press release stating that their users will be able to log in to Facebook using
OpenID (http://faz-community.faz.net/blogs/netzkonom/archive/2009/08/24/facebook-chooses-german-e-mail-provider-web-de-and-gmx-as-first-open-id-partner-in-europe.aspx).
Both email providers are subsidiaries of United Internet and dominate the
German email market.

So far both providers offered users a "navigator"
to log in to various social networks, online merchants,... However users had to
provide usernames and passwords -> password anti-pattern. If I got things
right, both providers have to become OpenID Providers now. Though why is there
an explicit cooperation with Facebook?

Is Facebook eventually accepting OpenIDs?

Are Web.de/GMX and Facebook using any vendor specific APIs
or extensions?

Anyone from Facebook here who can shed some light on the
topic? Thanks!

Carsten 

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