[OpenID] Singel-Minded

[SitG Admin]

>That being said, while Facebook is helping to prove the model that 
>web identities should be portable, I think there's plenty of room 
>for more than just one universal identity.

Agreed, "web" identity fits within the scope of "universal" identity 
with room to spare. Even "online" is not restricted to "web" - and 
shouldn't be, which has left me ambivalent about OpenID's future as 
it matures from a protocol focused on backward-compatibility (web 
technology, redirects and HTML parsing) to an extensible protocol 
that attempts to anticipate (and account for) future uses. At some 
point, isn't web-based Identity best reframed as an interface for 
accepting identifying data from *other* mediums, lest our 
"singel"-minded focus on the "web" lead us to keeping our conceptions 
of identity centralized there? I mean, OpenID is helping us make the 
hop to the web; will it survive the next paradigm shift? Do we want 
it to? Is it too early to care?

All of which is orthogonal to the matter at hand; you want to 
populate the Portable Web Identities row with additional entries, not 
figure out the next row beyond that.

-Shade