[OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?

[SitG Admin]

>There is no sign of the "STD mechanism" coming soon.

Perhaps it will arrive after Chris Messina's "Policy Expression 
Extension" passes ;)

>Apathy on the part of the OpenID Foundation.

Inaction, or so it may appear; timely, though?

>Half the Identity folk have moved on to Kantara Initiative.
>The Other half to the Open Web foundation.
>XRI TC has tied itself in knots.
>And the hilarious part is that there are folk involved in all these three
>foundations!

Sounds like good separation of duties to me. If the rest of us can 
still interop (and work is still being done that *needs* to be done 
before we can move forward), it doesn't really matter where most of 
the various communities is doing that work.

>No idea were the rest of us should bail out to!?

If the development of OpenID were to halt now, I think it would be 
Federated implementations that found themselves hardest hit; small, 
independent operators such as myself (working with libraries already 
distributed "in the wild") might not even notice.

-Shade