OpenID

Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> No.  I couldn't care less.  XRDS seriously screwed up in defining XRI.
> OpenID could have been deployed far more effectively if it had simply
> reused existing information systems directly instead of inventing a
> duplication of DNS using HTTP and making an incomprehensible mess of
> its documentation as a result.
> 

On a tangent, OpenID seems to be dying on the vine, like similar systems 
before it. Is it worth creating yet another federated, open, single 
sign-on system and doing it right, or are there business reasons why the 
market just doesn't want this? Would solving the technical problems lead 
to broader adoption or not?

(I'm currently deep in a project that depends on this sort of stuff, so 
this is of more than theoretical interest.)

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
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