<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, OpenID needs to become simpler which was a lot of my motivation behind getting together a proposal for OpenID Auth 2.1. Now we need to get to work on making it happen. :)<div><br><div><div>On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Chris Messina wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Evert | Rooftop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evert@rooftopsolutions.nl">evert@rooftopsolutions.nl</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> <br></div> As an open-id user, I have to concur. KISS!<br> <br> I'm not if this will be of any help to you guys being a mere implementer, but this is a sentiment I've heard from other developers.. I love the idea behind OpenID, but reading this list for 2 years makes me think it's heading the same direction as WS-*. Please keep things simple!<br> <br></blockquote></div>I agree.<div><br></div><div>The overwhelming impression that I'm getting from folks NOT on these mailing lists is that they "love the idea of OpenID but it's too hard".</div><div><br> </div><div>We're not going to win by adding features at this point. We win only if it's easy, simple and adds value.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not afraid of Facebook either. I'm afraid of the OpenID community not coming around to this reality soon enough to make this technology as accessible as it needs to be.<br> <br></div><div>Chris<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Web Advocate-at-Large<br><br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org">diso-project.org</a><br> <a href="http://citizenagency.com">citizenagency.com</a> # <a href="http://vidoop.com">vidoop.com</a><br>This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>