[OpenID] DotNetOpenAuth announces support of the Government profile of OpenID

[Andrew Arnott]

The government has just
announced<http://www.idmanagement.gov/drilldown.cfm?action=openID_openGOV>that
they are piloting accepting OpenID on several of their web sites, and
the major OpenID Providers (Google, Yahoo, AOL, PayPal, Verisign) will
be supporting
Providers<http://openid.net/u-s-government-openid-pilot-program-participants/>of
this new Government profile for OpenID.

What is this "government
profile<http://www.idmanagement.gov/documents/ICAM_OpenID20Profile.pdf>"?
 Basically it's a set of rules that an OP and RP must follow.  These rules
are more restrictive than, but nonetheless compliant with, the OpenID 2.0
spec.  For example, HTTPS must be used throughout the process, and shared
associations must only last up to a given maximum length of time.

I'm very pleased to announce that
*DotNetOpenAuth<http://dotnetopenauth.net/> has
support for this government profile*, and in fact is the underlying library
used by the NIH for its OpenID RP support.  Watch for a new release of DNOA
(3.2.1) in the next day or two that actually includes the government profile
in it.

More in the news<http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/us-government-to-embrace-openid-courtesy-of-google-yahoo-paypal-et-al/>

--
Andrew Arnott
"I [may] not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death
your right to say it." - S. G. Tallentyre
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