This post made me think about what OpenID actually means.<div><br><div>If I'm not blind, in a quick check at least two of those sites don't mention OpenID anywhere and they don't allow logging in with an OpenID URL from a provider I choose, they have their specific set of providers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't feel there's anything wrong with that, there are great businesses built on top of Facebook or Twitter which have only one login option and if you want to limit your site for any reason (e.g. trust) this is perfectly fine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However an important element in OpenID for me always has been decentralization and user-centric identity (= choice). As I said I can understand if a relying party doesn't want to trust all IdPs but a choice of six providers of which the major two (Facebook, Twitter) are not even technically OpenID shouldn't be called OpenID in my opinion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nevertheless these are great examples of delegated login. But not for what OpenID means to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div> Lukas<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/20 David Recordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:recordond@gmail.com">recordond@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Turned Brian's recent emails about adoption into a nice blog post. :)<div><br></div><div><a href="http://openid.net/2010/09/20/another-adoption-update/" target="_blank">http://openid.net/2010/09/20/another-adoption-update/</a></div>
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