[OpenID] About Google, Yahoo, Facebook and OpenID

[SitG Admin]

>Whether by design or by accident, what really Facebook has done, is to
>become an OpenID discovery and delegation provider for all its users. ie.
>Facebook users can now point to their Openid provider and also indicate
>their prefered provider in case they have more than one. This is
>significant. Because the primary problem to be solved for OpenID is
>discovery and delegation, and Facebook does it for its users.

I hadn't been aware this was a "primary problem" OpenID needed to be 
solved. To the extent that it was a "problem" at all, I've been aware 
of several proposals on how to address this, so I'm not seeing the 
solution as "we need to figure one out" so much as "in due time, we 
will decide on which of the proposals to add to the appropriate 
specs".

>soon. And this is not really all that bad. If you don't mind Facebook being
>your centralized mechanism for OpenID discovery and if they are the closest
>you can get to one, then why not?

Do you have a proposal for a DEcentralized mechanism for OpenID discovery?

Or were you just meaning to encourage competition between large RP's 
over which of them gets to be "the" centralized mechanism?

>The OpenID community must come to a concrete decision on which way they must
>go and go after their objective as fast as possible.

Translation: we must choose a single path instead of pursuing all the 
viable options simultaneously, then pursue it recklessly.

-Shade