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

[SitG Admin]

>Can openid be an "ongoing" grassroots movement, and now reflect the 
>5% of what is usually mostly about feel-good factors (i.e. vanity)?

Is this really about feeling good, or about escaping corporate 
control? My personal domain is not (publicly) associated with any of 
my PII, and it can't be "turned off" by Facebook/MySpace (et all) 
either if those parties terminate my account or go down - as RP's, 
they can choose to forget my prior dealings with them, but they 
*can't* choose to break my connection to another RP, because they 
never had that power in the first place! They were never a link in 
the chain. I'm trusting the registrar, but then, I'm also trusting 
them to maintain my privacy, so all my eggs are in one basket BUT 
since we're looking for no single egg being broken (not all of them 
remaining intact) that's okay.

That would change if MultiAuth (redundancy in URI's) became popular, 
but for now we get decentralization/UCI by cutting out these 
corporate middlemen from the loop: our "vanity" domains have a much 
more important quality, that of not being reliant on large 
corporations to continue being friendly to end users.

-Shade