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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Yahoo are to my knowledge entirely openid-standards conforming - having used the consensus process to get into openid2 the additional features they saw as necessary for mainstream adoption (RP discovery, and directed id). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>Anything that the participating RP does to cooperate with Yahoo can be done with any other conforming OP (apart from letting the OP key off the pretty - but - not strictly necessary - Yahoo button, that is)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>It sounds like clickpass is working as an proxy + account linking service to RPs. That is, from its an RP aggregation proxy.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>interesting to see just how fast the UCI model broke down! In such a RP-proxying model, the user expressing his/her controls via the OP has no visibility on the trust-root of the downstream "target" RPs, via the openid auth protocol's privacy controls.</DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Immad Akhund<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 3/12/2008 9:08 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Nat Sakimura<BR><B>Cc:</B> general@openid.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OpenID] Clickpass: Making OpenId easier<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Hi Nat,<BR><BR>Clickpass does quite a few things that Yahoo! doesn't; in order to try and make the OpenID experience smooth for the user and easier to implement for sites. From the user side<BR><BR>- Clickpass submits a different OpenID for every site, so we can do login in one click. The yahoo procedure is more cumbersome.<BR>- Provides a consistent interface to allow users to merge/signup to accounts on the relying party<BR>- Gives a nice launch page to log in to your common sites<BR>- Lets you easily save and use OpenIDs from different providers<BR>- Gonna add a bunch more things, like security, more attribute exchange stuff etc.<BR><BR>For sites<BR><BR>- We support OpenID 1.1 still which more sites are compatable with.<BR>- We work easily with multiple OpenID providers<BR>- Make it easier to implement OpenID by trying to take care case of he merge/signup stuff for new users<BR>- And again we got a bunch more things in the pipeline, including better stats etc.<BR><BR>Hope that helps. Yahoo definitely took a step in the right direction, we are hoping to do a lot more.<BR><BR>Immad<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Nat Sakimura <<A href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com" target=_blank>sakimura@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>What is the differnce between Yahoo! button and ClickPass button???</DIV>
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<DIV>Perhaps ClickPass let you login to non-openid sites as well? </DIV>
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