Awhile ago Brian Kissel was working on compiling statistics from various implementors to help judge success. Here are the two stats which Facebook shares:<div><div> - More than 100 million Facebook users engage with Facebook on external websites every month</div>
<div> - Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook</div></div><div><br></div><div>--David</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, SitG Admin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com">sysadmin@shadowsinthegarden.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Would it be considered a failure state or a success if OpenID retains its existing design but few in the marketplace adopt it?<br>
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Are we talking total market share or number of adopters?<br>
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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?<div class="im">
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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.<br>
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I agree here as well: how far into step do we wish to fall, then?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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-Shade<br>
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