[OpenID] Windows Live ID OpenID CTP Status Update (August 2009)

[Peter Williams]

Openid: the URL is king, and is the source of all identity wisdom.

Google: no it's  not: email address is king. Pah to you, and your URL axiom.

That's what I read.




On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:55 PM, "Chris Messina" <chris.messina at gmail.com<mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com>> wrote:

Fair enough. It is a little overwhelming, but I suppose that's a good thing.

Is this still your most current thinking?

<https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin/summary>https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin/summary

Chris

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Breno de Medeiros <<mailto:breno at google.com>breno at google.com<mailto:breno at google.com>> wrote:
Google regularly shares the results of our experiences and our
research in the site:

<https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/>https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Chris Messina<<mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com>chris.messina at gmail.com<mailto:chris.messina at gmail.com>> wrote:
> This post is very useful, and one of the more elaborate from one of the
> majors. I want to commend Microsoft for providing the amount of information
> that they did, and for sharing their findings (not with data, but still, the
> takeaways are generally useful).
> I would be very happy if Facebook, Yahoo, and Google all did the same.
> Clearly folks have had some questions and challenges dealing with OpenID on
> Google Apps for Your Domain, and it would be useful to understand where the
> confusion is coming from so that we could work to address it.
> In general, I find Microsoft's experience sobering — from both a privacy and
> usability perspective. The things that are valued by the UCI community seem
> to need to be jettisoned left and right because regular folks just don't
> grok it. These things are important to consider — and merely complaining
> about the loss of such features or the diminishment of certain priorities
> does us no good.
> Allen Tom, Steven Jackson and (I think) Luke Shepard have all been working
> on the user experience of OpenID for several months now, and it's unclear to
> me what the path to seeing that work adopted or reviewed is.
> Microsoft is clearly making progress here — and it would behoove the OpenID
> community, I believe, to take note of their lead and consider how we can
> learn more about how OpenID is actually performing in the wild and how it's
> being adopted and used (or not).
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, David Recordon <<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Great, thanks for the update!
>>
>> --David
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jorgen Thelin<<mailto:jthelin at microsoft.com>jthelin at microsoft.com<mailto:jthelin at microsoft.com>>
>> wrote:
>> > FYI, the Live ID Team has posted a blog post giving a status update on
>> > the
>> > Live ID OpenID Provider Community Tech Preview and some of the lessons
>> > learned (particularly around UI / user experience) which you guys may
>> > find
>> > of interest.
>> >
>> > <http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry> http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I bet you all thought we had forgotten about this stuff ;-), but we are
>> > actively working on the production OP release for Live ID users.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Unfortunately I cannot publicly share any specific schedule details at
>> > this
>> > stage. Stay tuned though :)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > - Jorgen
>> >
>> >
>> >
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