[OpenID] A Case for OpenEmailID

[Peter Williams]

If I take a pulse of the movement, it will struggle to accept the class of rationale you give. Give the RP a direct communication channel to the user that there avoids real-time intermediation by the original assertion party (OP), one is out of phase with what is motivating the large corporate players to adopt Openid technology.

Folks will dress this up with privacy waffles, loss of control waffles, and lack of vision waffles. But, corporate endorsement of a commodity standard by mega-portals requires that the competition space itself is largely unaffected by the standard. In the Japan and US markets at least, today's hub-spoke portal business models don't want RPs to be able to easily flit between OPs, at the user's whim. They want each and every user transaction intermediated by policy decisions enacted by the OPs, where those decision are remotely and automatically enforced by dumbed down, highly captive RPs.


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From: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Santosh Rajan [santrajan at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 4:53 AM
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Subject: [OpenID]  A Case for OpenEmailID

Please see my blog post with the same subject.
http://santrajan.blogspot.com/2009/05/case-for-openemailid.html
http://santrajan.blogspot.com/2009/05/case-for-openemailid.html


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Santosh Rajan
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