[OpenID] OpenID 2.1 Identifier Types --> WAS [Discovery for Email like identifiers]

[Chris Messina]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> Facebook are non conforming - if they didn't allow for user's to use their
> hxris. Shame on them. Its not exactly hard.
>

Have you associated your Facebook account with an OpenID? Do you know anyone
who has attempted to do so using an XRI?

Have you implemented support for XRI?

Facebook isn't the first major service that's talked to me that didn't add
support for XRI. And to my knowledge, few if anyone ever really complained.

I think we need to look at OpenID and XRI in a much wider lens and remember
that we need this technology to be adaptable by people who are not part of
the identity community — and who have never heard of — or don't care — what
XRI is, regardless of the value of the ideas behind it.


>
> Using openid mechanisms to reimplement facebook connect (with variant
> messages) is a both a move forward and a move back. If openid is just a tech
> library rather than a movement for uci, im not sure it needs the overhead of
> the foundation.
>
> It's both, but if parts of the technology are holding back adoption — or
are not being adopted in the first place — then it's worth reconsidering
what value they offer if they're never implemented or supported.

I would love to see Janrain list the percentage of XRI users they've seen
across their RPX installations. I bet you it's less than 1% of 1%.

Chris

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