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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Yes, this sounds great! Looking forward to chatting with all of you at Web 2 Expo.<BR>
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--David<BR>
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From: Johannes Ernst [<A HREF="mailto:jernst+openid.net@netmesh.us">mailto:jernst+openid.net@netmesh.us</A>]<BR>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 09:28 AM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
To: OpenID General<BR>
Subject: Re: [OpenID] AOL Open Authentication service launched<BR>
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Yet another thing from AOL that will likely help move this market <BR>
forward. Keep bringing it on, guys, this is great!<BR>
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And please do feel free to assemble like-minded OpenID people to work <BR>
on specs that you believe are needed beyond OpenID has today ;-)<BR>
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Johannes Ernst<BR>
NetMesh Inc.<BR>
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?? <A HREF="http://netmesh.info/jernst">http://netmesh.info/jernst</A><BR>
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On Apr 16, 2007, at 10:08, John Panzer wrote:<BR>
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> All,<BR>
><BR>
> Today we launched our OpenAuth service (<A HREF="http://dev.aol.com/">http://dev.aol.com/</A><BR>
> openauth) to support some of our initiatives; the current tie-in to <BR>
> OpenID at this point is just that our OP is built on top of our <BR>
> OpenAuth API. And of course we're very interested in seeing how <BR>
> some of these types of capabilities can be supported by standard <BR>
> protocols as well.<BR>
><BR>
> Praveen's blog (http://dev.aol.com/blog/82):<BR>
>> AOL Launches Open Authentication (OpenAuth) Service<BR>
>><BR>
>> After many months of work, we've finally posted the documentation <BR>
>> for AOL's Open Authentication APIs at dev.aol.com/openauth! This <BR>
>> is an exciting day for the authentication development team, but <BR>
>> even more exciting for us as a company because it further proves <BR>
>> the company's commitment to open protocols.<BR>
>><BR>
>> On the development front we've very proud of the new APIs and the <BR>
>> interesting applications they make possible. Yes there are other <BR>
>> "open" APIs out there. But we think we've got an innovative <BR>
>> approach that isn't matched elsewhere. With AOL Open <BR>
>> Authentication, a user can be authenticated and an authentication <BR>
>> token returned to a site or AJAX application. What's interesting <BR>
>> is that the application can then interact with other AOL services <BR>
>> on behalf of the user. If the user hasn't given permission <BR>
>> (granted consent) to that 3rd party, an exception is returned and <BR>
>> a URL can be loaded that prompts the user for said consent.<BR>
>><BR>
>> We'll probably get some questions about why we invented another <BR>
>> proprietary, albeit open, authentication protocol. Especially <BR>
>> since we recently announced support for OpenId. Does AOL Open <BR>
>> Authentication mean we're not committed to OpenId? The answer to <BR>
>> that is an emphatic No! It does NOT mean we're backing off from <BR>
>> our OpenId position. In fact, our goal is to use open protocols <BR>
>> whenever possible, and being fans of OpenId that's our preference. <BR>
>> But OpenId does not currently support the breadth of use cases we <BR>
>> must support, particularly service invocation or consent <BR>
>> management. That said, we are working on a prototype extension to <BR>
>> OpenId intended to cover some of those additional use cases.<BR>
>><BR>
>> On the company front, we're very happy because we think these <BR>
>> APIs, and others in the pipeline, cement AOL's commitment to being <BR>
>> "open" and providing APIs for different services. The internal <BR>
>> buzz we hear from our developer kin in other groups about <BR>
>> providing APIs to different services and AOL's growing involvement <BR>
>> with developer communities is starting to give us some great <BR>
>> momentum, as we continue to build on our new strategy. And that's <BR>
>> great news to us.<BR>
>><BR>
><BR>
> --<BR>
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> John Panzer<BR>
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