[OpenID] Feedback from OpenID demo

[David Recordon]

Yes, definitely thanks for the feedback!  It's really useful in  
helping to figure out where to focus the community driven technical  
efforts.

Does Digg see these things as blockers to being able to support OpenID  
or nice to haves?

--David

On May 22, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Luke Shepard wrote:

> That’s really good feedback, thanks for sending Bill.
>
> I just published a blog post exploring these issues. Bill already  
> summarized the ideas, but for a flushed out description, check it out:
>
> http://www.sociallipstick.com/2009/05/logout-the-other-half-of-the-identity-equation/
>
> On 5/22/09 9:47 AM, "Bill Shupp" <hostmaster at shupp.org> wrote:
>
> I did a quick internal OpenID demo here at Digg yesterday, and thought
> I'd share the feedback here.
>
> There were about 20 people there, of which maybe 3 had used OpenID.
> Some people were not technical, though most were.  Featured in the
> demo were Plaxo and Facebook for RPs, and Google and MyOpenID as OPs.
> The feedback was not terribly positive, and the criticisms focused on
> two areas:
>
> 1) Lack of Single Sign Out in the protocol
> 2) "Automatic Login", as implemented currently at Facebook
>
> Obviously, #2 really highlighted #1.  People thought that login should
> be an explicit action, not automatic.  When discussing #1, I mentioned
> an idea that Luke Shepard shared this week at IIW, of adding
> "logout_setup" and "logout_immediate" to the protocol.  The idea being
> that if you click logout on the RP, it could send a "logout_setup" to
> the OP, which would trigger a popup asking if you also want to logout
> of the OP as well.  This idea got a pretty favorable response, and
> seemed to satisfy some of those concerned with the Single Sign Out
> issue.  "logout_immediate" could behave similar to
> "checkid_immediate", where the logout is performed without user
> interaction, and might be favored by higher value RPs like mint.com or
> the like.  Obviously, there's room for RP abuse here, though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill Shupp
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