Is this list still alive?
Chris Drake
christopher at pobox.com
Thu Mar 29 03:07:06 UTC 2012
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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