<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Steven Livingstone-Perez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:weblivz@hotmail.com">weblivz@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't really have much of a say on this (other than being a new member)<br>
and you may 100% disagree with me, but IMHO there *is* an argument that in<br>
using best of breed products we can demonstrate the power of OpenID to users<br>
... compared with the cost/effort to implement something that already does a<br>
really good job.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>No argument there. Making OpenID seem awesome (or live up to its promised awesomeness) isn't really something that I'm questioning.</div><div><br></div><div>This kind of experience can be done without the use of a vendor product, though, but requires quite a bit more work and time.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I do understand the endorsement aspect, but on the other hand the UX is the<br>
biggest issue OpenID seems to have at the moment and it seems to me that<br>
using such products (so long as they are donated as such and not specific<br>
long term to any one company) can only be a positive thing.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Therein lies the rub. I'm not arguing against using RPX, but for concealing it in the trust root (since currently people end up trusting *.<a href="http://rpxnow.com">rpxnow.com</a> rather than <a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a> — thereby creating a long term situation that's hard to switch from (without users having to *reassociate*)) and for getting some transparency into how the decision to use RPX was made.<div>
<br></div><div>I agree with Eran that the experience is better -- but let's not set a poor precedent in the interest of expediency.<br><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br>
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