The CardSpace factor

[Brendan O'Connor]

Especially until CardSpace is fully implemented on all platforms (anyone 
know the status of that, especially on Linux/OSX/OpenBSD?), I would 
think it would be premature to declare victory over the ubiquitous 
username and password. +1 to #3.

---Brendan O'Connor

Johannes Ernst wrote:
> So now that CardSpace (and its eventual equivalent on non-Windows 
> platforms) is part of the OpenID picture, what does this do to the 
> user-experience work on this list?
> 
> We could ...
> 1. ignore it
> 2. say that usernames/passwords aren't a problem any more because 
> CardSpace solves that for us at OPs,
> 3. broaden the use cases considered to allow OP authentication either
>     a. via username/password (traditional)
>     b. via CardSpace
>     c. via another OpenID authentication process.
> 
> Of course, I favor #3 or some variation on it. What does everybody else 
> think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Johannes.
> 
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> 
> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
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