Ruination of OpenID

[Nicolas Issalene]

>From my experience, you can choose to link or not any provider to your
website.
So we can imagine that consumers choose to refuse connection about others
OpenID
providers.
The usefulness of OpenID should not be verified with one, more or three
website.
Otherwise, if everybody is trying to add his own piece on the construction,
the OpenID interest will increqse quickly.

If OpenID has a phylosophy with some rules and API, that's not to appears
like a serious idea. This is a serious idea.


On 12/24/09, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
>
> I am a bit confused about the usefulness of OpenID. I thought the idea was
> for a person to have a single identity that they could use at multiple
> sites. This does not seem to be the practical reality though.
>
>
> I got an OpenID years after starting my LiveJournal, but I can't seem to
> link up my new OpenID with my old LiveJournal account, so its useless there.
>
>
> Even though Flickr seems to support OpenID as an authenticator, I can't
> seem to sign in using an OpenID from somewhere else, so its useless there
> too.
>
>
> GMail? Seems to be the same story.
>
>
> So if all these sites will perform OpenID authentication for you, yet not
> accept OpenID authentication from other sites, once again the user has to
> have many logins and a password database and there's no benefit from OpenID
> at all.
>
>
> So far Slashdot is the only site I have found which actually seems to be
> doing things properly! You can link any foreign OpenID to a Slashdot account
> and reap all the benefits of single sign-on.
>
>
> Or am I wrong about this?
>
>
> Leslie
>
>
>
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