[OpenID] Messenger Connect ships today

[Sarah Faulkner]

Hi Peter,

The Windows Live team has not decided against being an Open ID provider. The
Messenger Connect platform is driven by scenarios to share data across
websites, which is a primary reason we have used the OAuth protocol instead
of Open ID. Microsoft is very much engaged with the Open ID community; we
have hosted two Open ID summits in the last few months.

Your website can use our Messenger Connect offering to authenticate Windows
Live ID users and recieve a CID. It will also let you request access to data
like their profile so sites can avoid sign-up flows that request the same
information.

Thank you for your feedback.
Sarah


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Peter Watkins <peterw at tux.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:44:33AM -0700, Sarah Faulkner wrote:
> > Windows Live just shipped a beta of our Messenger Connect platform. The
> > platform uses OAuth WRAP (among other standards
> ...
> > and a new consent dialogue
> ...
> > to enable third party websites to access a user’s Windows Live data.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Reading between the lines... does this mean that the Windows Live team
> has decided against providing an OpenID OP service? Last August's
> announcement that the OpenID CTP was closing sounded optimistic
> about a production system replacing it
> http://winliveid.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AEE1BB0D86E23AAC!1791.entry
> but I don't recall hearing anything else from Windows Live about OpenID.
>
> Are you also working on an OpenID OP service?
>
> All this social graph stuff is lovely (except that it seems everyone has
> their own slightly different technology mix), but what I really want from
> you is an easy way to let your users log in to my sites without setting up
> new accounts that will only get them into our systems. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
>
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