Is this list still alive?

[Chris Drake]

Hi James,

My personal opinion is that too many vested interests were involved in
the specifications (eg: nobody wanted to even consider adding hooks
and features to allow future "smart browsers" to identify/discover and
use OpenID enabled sites easily/automatically) which watered it all
down, and then of course the biggie:  nobody wants to loose control of
their userbase; so plenty of folks lined up to *provide* openid, but
nobody important ever wants to *consume* it.

This bit of politics could have been addressed in the specifications
(but once more - vested interest holders killed that idea).  If it was
made impossible to *provide* without also being a *consumer*, this
would have lead to a "viral" spread of genuinely useful identity
services for everyone.

Kind Regards,
Chris Drake


Thursday, March 29, 2012, 12:28:41 PM, you wrote:

JAD> Low noise, no signal

JAD> Seems to me that openid just did not fly.  Not sure why.  Perhaps it is
JAD> time for a debriefing and post mortem.
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