[OpenID] Yahoo's "Project Rushmore"

[David Recordon]

Fully agreed with Brett minus the Concordia/Kantara aspect. :)

And yes, Facebook has already been participating in OpenID community
discussions and how OpenID must evolve.  We're very interested in
seeing this happen.

--David

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brett McDowell <email at brettmcdowell.com> wrote:
> I think the question isn't about why Yahoo! would implement Facebook Connect (seems obvious... they want to connect with Facebook) but rather does OpenID (or some OpenID+ hybrid profile) an equal or superior option for integrating with Facebook today.  If not, then I'd suggest that's where the focus of this conversation should be.
>
> Only after we can convince ourselves that we have an equal or superior alternative should we turn this into an advocacy/evangelism effort.  For now our goals might be best served by approaching this as a requirements, development, usability and interoperability effort... with Facebook and Yahoo! representatives deeply involved.
>
> Another parallel approach might be to work with the Concordia folks on cross-protocol interoperability/harmonization between OpenID and Facebook Connect.
>
> Brett McDowell  |  http://info.brettmcdowell.com  |  http://KantaraInitiative.org
>
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>
>>> On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:46, Chris Messina wrote:
>>>
>>>> we need identity++!
>>
>> I'd call that, naturally, multiple personality disorder. But then, if it is post-incremented, we might have a chance ;-)
>>
>> But seriously, I think I understand the business logic for what has been announced, and that business logic is rather revolutionary.
>>
>> If Yahoo can apply this business logic, many others will follow the same logic leading to FB (a single-vendor solution).
>>
>> The questions are:
>> 1. why not OpenID? (and other open standards) [methinks: we don't have our act together]
>> 2. is anybody bothered by that? [methinks: I'm not sure, to be honest]
>> 3. if enough people are bothered enough about it, what are we going to do about it?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Johannes.
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