The CardSpace factor

[Eric Norman]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:18 PM, 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?

Why didn't you say that OpenID is part of the CardSpace picture?
I detect some bias and chauvinism sneaking in.

> We could ...
> 1. ignore it

What is the antecedent of "it"?  The CardSpace user experience
or the OpenID user experience?

> 2. say that usernames/passwords aren't a problem any more because 
> CardSpace solves that for us at OPs,

There's a lot more to user experience than passwords, methinks.

> 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.

You want me to supply my "identity URL" in order to see a
CardSpace identity selector?  That seems rather odd.

Eric Norman