Thanks Paul. Is the 'directed identity' feature unique to Yahoo!'s implementation or is it part of the OpenID spec?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Madsen <<a href="mailto:paulmadsen@rogers.com">paulmadsen@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Will,<br>
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1) the opaque characters you are seeing in the Yahoo OpenIDs support enhanced privacy (by inhibiting correlation), its a feature called 'directed identity'<br>
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2) what you perceive as Google support for OpenID actually has nothing to to with Google<br>
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3) Microsoft does not (yet?) support OpenID<br>
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paul<br>
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Will Merydith wrote:<br>
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I'm trying to understand what it actually means when Google, MSFT and Yahoo! mean when they say they support OpenID. <br>
We've been testing our implementation of OpenID on our systems, and at the same time pitching the concept and power of OpenID to our clients (major music companies like WMG and Sony). Yet our testing is showing some discord between the OpenID logo mashups (you've seen them where MSFT, Google, Yahoo! and OpenID are all in the same logo cluster) and the reality.<br>
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I wanted to verify our perception.<br>
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Yahoo! (and Flickr) - we've got it working, it would have been a snap except that Yahoo! is appending an alpha numeric string to the end of the identity URL. We cannot find documentation detailing the purpose of that string.<br>
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Google - completely broken, and when a user tries to use a Google OpenID identity, they get a message from Google that says, "Warning: this is currently buggy, and it's not high enough priority to spend time on right now. Hopefully I'll get to it soon!"<br>
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MSFT - cannot find any implementation, despite language from Microsoft and the community claiming "Microsoft *is* supporting OpenID". Is their a timeline for support or documentation on the MSFT site detailing the implementation?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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