[OpenID] Fwd: [dotnetopenid] DotNetOpenAuth announces support of the Government profile of OpenID

[John Bradley]

It was early I forgot to copy the general list.

John B.

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> From: John Bradley <ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com>
> Date: September 9, 2009 10:03:44 AM GMT-04:00
> To: dotnetopenid at googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [dotnetopenid] DotNetOpenAuth announces support of the  
> Government profile of OpenID
>
> I want to thank Andrew Arnott, Johnny Bufu and many others for there  
> feedback during the process of developing the GSA profile for openID.
>
> Today we have Six OP announcing support for the profile and the GSA  
> Pilot: AOL, Google, Yahoo, and Verisign, and Wave.
> http://openid.net/2009/09/09/yahoo-paypal-google-equifax-aol-verisign-acxiom-citi-privo-wave-systems-pilot-open-identity-for-open-government/
>
> Andrew has helped build the test RP that is available at http://test-id.org 
>  that we have been using for the last several months to help the IdP  
> conform to the profile.
>
> http://www.idmanagement.gov/documents/ICAM_OpenID20Profile.pdf
>
> If other IdP are interested in participating they can contact the  
> OIDF or myself for more information.
>
> Getting 5 OP's ready to go into this pilot has been a major challenge.
>
> I would like to thank all of the 5 OPs for there commitment to  
> openID and to making this happen.
>
> This is a big day on the openID and federated identity adoption curve.
>
> Thanks
> John Bradley
>
> PS No delegation is not supported by the profile.  No you cannot  
> enter a vanity URL or any other identifier for privacy and non  
> correlation reasons.  Yes XRI is allowed,  but even I can't see why  
> you would bother given the profile.  Yes I am an evil and loathsome  
> person for violating the principals of UCI (Sorry about that)
>
>
> On 2009-09-09, at 9:34 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:
>
>> DotNetOpenAuth community:
>>
>> The government has just announced 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 of this new Government profile for OpenID.
>>
>> What is this "government profile"?  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 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.  (We could release it earlier than  
>> today's announcement).
>>
>> More in the news
>>
>> --
>> 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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