Just a couple of observations:<br><br>First, I think that it would be good to see this week's website upgrade as an interim step - and a very good one at that in terms of user experience, design, new user education, adoption. Hats off to Scott, David, and the terrific Vidoop team.
<br><br>Second, pointing out on the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">How do I get one?</span> page "<span style="font-weight: bold;">If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID
</span>:" is seriously helpful to many users, I bet. Once the OpenID Foundation's work on intellectual property rights (IPR) is finished (very soon I hope!) then significance of that list is going to grow and become rather more helpful. The list will be helpful both in terms of: (i) informing people that in many cases they already have an OpenID; (ii) showing how broadly OpenID is supported; and (iii) indicating the range of kinds of options one has to think about.
<br><br>Third, it seems to me that the OpenID community could see our immediate conundrum (being fair and open on the one hand while also helping people to make well considered choices) as an opportunity to develop community-based reputation, accreditation, and best practices measures/services. As we all know the OpenID Foundation is committed to the community of all OpenID supporters, users, developers, champions, etc., so what the OpenID community develops and embraces, OIDF will gladly utilize.
<br><br>Finally, let us not "make perfection the enemy of the very good" - it's an old Murphy's Law, actually. Rather, during this transition phase I believe there are numerous things that all the stewards of OpenID must strive to continue to do to avoid favoritism, to avoid poor user experience, and to help foster the widest possible levels of adoption. For example, we can continue to link to OpenID related directories, perhaps we can begin to randomize the list of OPs shown with each requested page view of OPs, and
<a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a> can provide warning messages urging users to be mindful in their choices and that we cannot make any warranties...<br><br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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