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

[Peter Watkins]

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 Even yahoo has withdrawn, I believe.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