<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Peter Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pwilliams@rapattoni.com">pwilliams@rapattoni.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Facebook are non conforming - if they didn't allow for user's to use their hxris. Shame on them. Its not exactly hard.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have you associated your Facebook account with an OpenID? Do you know anyone who has attempted to do so using an XRI?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Have you implemented support for XRI?</div><div><br></div><div>Facebook isn't the first major service that's talked to me that didn't add support for XRI. And to my knowledge, few if anyone ever really complained.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think we need to look at OpenID and XRI in a much wider lens and remember that we need this technology to be adaptable by people who are not part of the identity community — and who have never heard of — or don't care — what XRI is, regardless of the value of the ideas behind it.</div>
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Using openid mechanisms to reimplement facebook connect (with variant messages) is a both a move forward and a move back. If openid is just a tech library rather than a movement for uci, im not sure it needs the overhead of the foundation.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote></div><div>It's both, but if parts of the technology are holding back adoption — or are not being adopted in the first place — then it's worth reconsidering what value they offer if they're never implemented or supported.</div>
<div><br></div>I would love to see Janrain list the percentage of XRI users they've seen across their RPX installations. I bet you it's less than 1% of 1%.<br><br clear="all">Chris<br><div><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>
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