HTTPS status

[Alaric Dailey]

Eddy Nigg and I brought up the issue of requiring SSL  a while back, since
then I have been swamped, it looked like there was some more talk about it
since then.  
 
I know that there are several other people, that are concerned about this
too, and it has even been blogged about (
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/02/24/OpenID )
 
Can someone please tell me the status on this? Hopefully its being required!