Why Connect?

[David Recordon]

Awhile ago Brian Kissel was working on compiling statistics from various
implementors to help judge success. Here are the two stats which Facebook
shares:
 - More than 100 million Facebook users engage with Facebook on external
websites every month
 - Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s
Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook

--David


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
> wrote:

> Would it be considered a failure state or a success if OpenID retains its
>> existing design but few in the marketplace adopt it?
>>
>
> Are we talking total market share or number of adopters?
>
> The former can be covered just as well by a large number of small players,
> since users often have accounts with more than one party. Adoption is better
> achieved by gaining the support of those very few large players (who,
> between them, claim a majority of the user base), but how many past
> protocols have ultimately failed because they were aimed at (and served
> *primarily*) only those larger players?
>
>
>  Taking a less-than-pragmatic approach that meets the needs of a number of
>> classes of stakeholders seems to work entirely against the goals of
>> achieving more user-centricity in the marketplace. OpenID Connect may not be
>> the ideal long term solution, and that fine with me. If the next generation
>> of identity technologies gets baked without the OpenID foundation playing a
>> role, then I think we might have missed a very critical window to actually
>> shift things in the direction that we prefer in the long term.
>>
>
> I agree here as well: how far into step do we wish to fall, then?
>
>
> -Shade
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