[OpenID] Combining Google & Yahoo user experience research

[Nate Klingenstein]

Have you folks written off Cardspace or similar approaches, where the  
client is smarter and able to mediate discovery, at this point?

On 11 Feb 2009, at 19:02, George Fletcher wrote:

> I like the possibilities of XRD or even configuring a browser with  
> a specific preference that it could "push" to RPs. It doesn't seem  
> like it should be that hard for a browser to add a header with the  
> preference or better, detect that the RP wants the preference and  
> only send it when needed. Similar to how the Identity in the  
> Browser flow discovers RP meta-data.
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
> Breno de Medeiros wrote:
>> 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).