Promoting OpenID

[Dick Hardt]

On 5-Apr-07, at 8:46 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> On Apr 5, 2007, at 18:36, Chris Messina wrote:
>
>> ... I personally think selling to the enterprise is nearly
>> impossible without tons of grassroots adoption ...
>
> I disagree. ;-)
>
> Now granted, there are many, many things that we all need to do and  
> that need to happen to make OpenID suitable for the enterprise  
> market on a "mass" market basis. People like James keep reminding  
> us of that on this list and in other places, and please keep it  
> coming.
>
> But it's definitely not the case any more that it is "impossible"...

I think you are missing a key part of Chris statement "... without  
tons of grassroots adoption ..."

If the grassroots don't support OpeniD, very unlikely that the  
enterprise will.

-- Dick