OpenID V.Next - Some Views to Consider

[SitG Admin]

>But they sure have told us that they absolutely do not want URIs as
>user identifiers.

Fickle. Would they make up their minds already? (I'm kinda confused, 
though. I could go with "all the users who gave me their webpage 
rather than an E-mail address, many years ago, were only doing it 
because they knew *I* cared about privacy, not because any of *them* 
truly valued it", but what about the reports in OpenID's early days 
about users referring others to their webpages, not just handing out 
E-mail addresses? Is this community nothing more than the product of 
outlier coincidences, a statistically insignificant critical mass 
formed from the demographics of "geeks who just happen to hear the 
wrong thing"? Are we like those alien conspiracy theorists, convinced 
of our right-ness simply because we've managed to find enough *other* 
people as crazy and stupid as we are who agree with us?)

-Shade