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tom:
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<pre wrap="">Is it only me that has an
issue with this given that before long pages will be covered with many
logos and that I'll end up having to search for the OpenID logo?
I appreciate the "open" aspects of OpenID, but for the user would it not
be better to have the browser manufacturers agree on a way to store an
OpenID and auto-direct to my OP rather than giving the user a zillion
logos on a screen?
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This has been anticipated and was obvious (even by design). OpenID has
refused to address the issues of a trust point or federated network of
OpenID operators and this is the result. There are and will be many
sites which will trust only their own or a very narrow choice of OpenID
providers.<br>
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When making these suggestions more then 1 1/2 years ago I was booed
down....something about "taking away the freedom to operate randomly
OPs" was mentioned many times. Well, you can blame these idiots today
for refusing to address this issue, because, yeah...their freedom is
going to be taken away by reality now, and not by providing and
organizing a framework which would have allow RPs to trust OPs
according to agreed rules and accepted standards. In a federated
network of OPs and some established criteria everybody could trust
anybody....<br>
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