<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)</b> <<a href="mailto:eddy_nigg@startcom.org">eddy_nigg@startcom.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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John Panzer wrote:
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<pre>Hans Granqvist wrote:</pre>
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<pre>2. "I am not a URL." OpenID sees users as web resources, but<br>identifying yourself with a URL (any type) is geeky and a hurdle<br>to wide adoption.<br> </pre>
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</span><span class="q"><pre>This is not an argument that Yet Another Namespace isn't annoying, but <br>that there is suggestive history that this isn't a long term problem.</pre></span>
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I think, that's the weakest argument "against" OpenID. With todays
blogger mentality, a URL makes even sense - specially with bloggers as
a target for adoption in mind. Aren't those URI's exactly like OpenID
URI's? Something like </div></blockquote><div><br>Sure, if all you want is that bloggers use OpenID, then no problem, but I'd hoped we all <br>aspired for it to be more than that. Or no? Is OpenID just an authentication
<br>mechanism for the blogosphere? <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><a href="http://myname.weblong.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://myname.weblong.com</a> or
<a href="http://weblog.com/myname" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://weblog.com/myname</a> ? That's about as bad as "myname" as user
name...</div></blockquote><div><br>How do you figure? Do you really think there is no diff for the common end user if BofA <br>says "Your user name is <a href="http://users.bankofamerica.com/xyzzy">http://users.bankofamerica.com/xyzzy
</a>" vs. "Your user name <br>is xyzzy"? </div><br>-Hans</div>