[OpenID] About Google Wave and OpenID

[Santosh Rajan]

I have been looking at Google Wave all day, wow, very very interesting. I
have a lot to say but I will make this short by sticking to a couple of
points that relate to OpenID.

1) Wave servers are natural OpenID Providers.
The wave protocol sits on top of XMPP and provides for real time
communication between users. It is decentralized using the DNS system. Yes
this is like OpenID, but the clincher is that you can communicate with the
user in real time, as soon as he logs in, and you can verify the user
immediately.
2) Wave ID's are natural OpenID's
Wave ID's are really Jabber ID's, look like email addresses and have
discovery inherant in the ID.

Eg. If you have a user with wave ID
user at domain.com/waveserver
An OpenID server on the same domain is a natural. The users Wave ID can be
his OpenID or it can be
user at domain.com/openidserver
ie. either make the waveid and openid same with xrds discovery or let it be
different but point to the openid endpoint.

Any way it really deosn't matter how we do it, what matters is how fast we
do it. In the coming months we may see a lot of Wave servers popping up, and
if we are ready with support for WaveID's in OpenID we can make a killing.

Other wise the world will move on without us, and this will be another
missed opportunity for OpenID. (We already missed it with email addresses).

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Santosh Rajan
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