Is this list still alive?

[Nat Sakimura]

If you want to discuss the user interface around OpenID etc., I would
highly recommend you to join the Account Chooser WG.

   http://openid.net/wg/ac/

Instead of being just a disucssion group, now some of the user
interface issues are dealt within a IPR clean Working Group that
provide a safer space to discuss these issues so that it will not be
contaminated by the proprietary IPR.

Best,

Nat Sakimura


On 3/29/12, Chris Drake <christopher at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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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