[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[Breno de Medeiros]

That being said, adoption would be a much easier proposition if RPs hard
better tools to identify the user's preferred IDP (or set of IDPs). We
should seriously think about more direct broking of user IDP preferences via
XRD discovery and/or a centralized service (which could be distributed among
different organizations such as DNS to avoid over-reliance on a single
player).

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:

> i've just realized that this thread is quite stale.  Undaunted,
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> wrote:
>
> > Based on the test Yahoo & Gmail have done earlier in the year, we already
> > both believe that any "login" buttons have to include the brand of the
> IDP
> > and must be right next to the login box.  While that might not scale nor
> > promote the OpenID technology brand, that is just the fact of life.
>
> And a good fact it is. promoting the OpenID technology brand to
> end-users is inappropriate; if OpenID is successful the OpenID brand
> will disappear like the vanilla flavor in strawberry ice cream.
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