[OpenID] HTML-Based Discovery incompatibilities

[David Recordon]

Yes, OpenID needs to become simpler which was a lot of my motivation  
behind getting together a proposal for OpenID Auth 2.1.  Now we need  
to get to work on making it happen. :)

On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Chris Messina wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Evert | Rooftop <evert at rooftopsolutions.nl 
> > wrote:
>
> As an open-id user, I have to concur. KISS!
>
> I'm not if this will be of any help to you guys being a mere  
> implementer, but this is a sentiment I've heard from other  
> developers.. I love the idea behind OpenID, but reading this list  
> for 2 years makes me think it's heading the same direction as WS-*.  
> Please keep things simple!
>
> I agree.
>
> The overwhelming impression that I'm getting from folks NOT on these  
> mailing lists is that they "love the idea of OpenID but it's too  
> hard".
>
> We're not going to win by adding features at this point. We win only  
> if it's easy, simple and adds value.
>
> I'm not afraid of Facebook either. I'm afraid of the OpenID  
> community not coming around to this reality soon enough to make this  
> technology as accessible as it needs to be.
>
> Chris
>
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