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

[Peter Williams]

I swear I read recently that it was being dropped, in an upcoming UI redesign based on a UX study.

Yahoo folks can confirm: is the feature being dropped, or being retained?

Is it part of the strategy to

(a) let users pick available aliases?
(b) let users direct which alias is released to which RP?

I don't really see it as particularly important one way or the other; except in the determining which elements of the mission (re privacy/user centric features) are or are not being pursued by the giant corporations; which are being messaged or dropped by the Foundation.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Watkins [mailto:peterw at tux.org]
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:23 PM
To: Peter Williams
Cc: openid-general at lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Windows Live ID OpenID CTP Status Update (August 2009)

Peter Williams wrote:
> So the experiment with directed I'd to allow users to release different identity urls/synonyms to subsets of relying part sites has failed. Even yahoo has withdrawn, I believe.
>
Where'd you get that impression? I just now logged in to Yahoo and
verified that I can still use the "OpenID Home" link to get the UI for
requesting additional "me.yahoo.com" identifiers, and their OP login
flow still lets me choose between the very ugly unique ID they first
created for me, and the slightly less ugly identifier that I created. So
they still seem to support directed identity and allowing users to
create a set of alternative identifiers.

Or maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. It wouldn't be the
first time. ;-)

Windows Live folks -- thanks for sharing. I look forward to digesting
this tomorrow. And I look forward to seeing your final solution. I do
hope it, like the offerings from Yahoo! and Google (and, if I recall
correctly, the CTP setup), will allow for 100% https usage, so we can
trust the process. If so, I'm sure we'll add an easy "Login with Windows
Live ID" button to our RP site. If not, we won't accept Live as an OP,
even if a user is geeky enough to enter a valid URL in the OpenID text box.

-Peter