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Wed Mar 4 18:19:19 UTC 2009

"The Service Provider's responsibility is to enable Consumer Developers to =
establish a Consumer Key and Consumer Secret. The process and requirements =
for provisioning these are entirely up to the Service Providers."

This highlights the fact that in order to build a truly useful stack, we ne=
ed to extend the core specs to allow for more data flow. The OpenID/OAuth h=
ybrid is a great example of the kind of work that's going on to enable that=
.

On 4/2/09 10:46 AM, "Martin Atkins" <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:

Allen Tom wrote:
> santrajan wrote:
>> As a side note myspace has come out with there own version of OpenID
>> support, which is not compatible with the OpenID specification. Another
>> example of vested interests tearing apart the concept of OpenID.
>
> Can you elaborate on this? As far as I can tell, MySpace has implemented
> OpenID 2.0 along with the OpenID OAuth Extension. The OpenID  OAuth
> Extension is not finalized yet, but there is a  draft spec available.
>

MySpaceID currently requires an application to be pre-registered with
MySpace, so it doesn't do ad-hoc interop as most OpenID Providers do.

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11pt'>The core OpenID spec doesn&#8217;t by itself provide a lot of data &#=
8211; just an identifier. I was able to log in with an OpenID identifier us=
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rain library. Of course, to access extended information using OAuth, you ne=
ed to pre-register, but that is entirely within both the letter and the spi=
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