[OpenID] Authorized Voting for Email Like Identifiers

[SitG Admin]

>I also see an urgency in this matter because ideally I would like to see 2.1
>come out soon because there will be Wave servers being released by the last
>quarter of the year. If we can have 2.1 before that we will be in a position
>to offer OpenID as an alternative.

Why compete? Are the two technologies mutually incompatible?

More importantly, do they even seek to address the same user *need*?

I think some users will embrace this, and some users won't. Just as 
some users will embrace OpenID, and some won't. Like social networks, 
you don't have to stop using everything else just because you start 
using one. With different technologies catering to different 
use-cases, that would be STUPID; we create technology to fit *all* 
our needs, not recreate ourselves to fit the limits of our technology.

Let this "Wave" do what it means to do (there may still be 
competition, from Mesh), and let's focus on OpenID doing what *it* 
means to do. Users will decide how much of each they want, but would 
probably be disappointed if OpenID ended up not providing what it had 
promised, just because of some idea that its purpose was to keep Wave 
away from users, instead of being useful technology in its own right.

-Shade