<div dir="ltr"><div>>> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I'd like to assemble a group of like-minded individuals/companies and put together the "glue", extra conventions, user interface optimizations, whatever is required ... to define an (at least) feature-equivalent open technology stack that also equals or beats whatever non-open technology stacks may exist. (not specifically singling out FaceBook Connect here, as I agree with David on this thread that other social networks et al will come up with similar things over the next year, too.)</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you have not already seen the Step2 code site, you might check that out:</div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://code.google.com/p/step2/">http://code.google.com/p/step2/</a><br>
</blockquote><div>That is where Google and some others are working on combining OpenID & OAuth to support a user experience that is closer to a FacebookConnect or YahooBBAuth. Then on top of that it should be possible to add REST APIs for things like Portable Contacts.</div>
<div>There is some additional information on these goals that was presented at the OAuth summit back in June that Yahoo hosted. You can find that information in the "Hybrid Protocol" section of this site:</div>
<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/">http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/</a><br></blockquote><div>I'd be interested to know what other "features" people think we should try to also support that need to be integrated at the AuthZ/AuthN layer as opposed to higher up in the stack </div>
<div><br></div><div>Eric Sachs</div><div>Product Manager, Google Security</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Johannes Ernst <span dir="ltr"><jernst+<a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a>@<a href="http://netmesh.us">netmesh.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Sep 16, 2008, at 14:35 , Dick Hardt wrote:<br>
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... and I think the user experience is<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
superior with Facebook Connect than OpenID.<br>
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Very likely. For this reason, I started this thread in the first place ...:<br>
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I'd like to assemble a group of like-minded individuals/companies and put together the "glue", extra conventions, user interface optimizations, whatever is required ... to define an (at least) feature-equivalent open technology stack that also equals or beats whatever non-open technology stacks may exist. (not specifically singling out FaceBook Connect here, as I agree with David on this thread that other social networks et al will come up with similar things over the next year, too.)<br>
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The focus would not be spec development per se, but integration of what exists and optimization etc.<br>
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Some hands so far were raised, here is another opportunity to say you are interested ;-) Please let me know ...<br>
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