"death by committee" is like "death by one thousand knives" i know what a delegated identity is. and if you can show me 10% of facebook users that care, i am

"death by committee" is like "death by one thousand knives" i know what a delegated identity is. and if you can show me 10% of facebook users that care, i am interested. the problem is that so many people want simple these days. in the beginning the internet was for geeks. today the internet needs to be for everyone. my really smart friends in social games, always get frustrated, because they can never create a game that is fun for them. rather they need to create games for the masses. many of us still enjoy the complexity of supreme commander or civ5, but instead design things like mobsters and farm-ville because that is what people ( on average ) can handle. OpenID has been designed by way to many smart people for their own needs and does not often times take the simple shortcut. there are people from government institutions at these committee meetings trying to leverage OpenID into a government ready spec. the OpenID groups should really segment along a few different paths and focus on unique consumer segments like social, fiscal, and real identity. the other problem is that RP ( relying parties ) otherwise known as the 3rd party site don't like OpenIDs because there is not a guaranteed messaging protocol for communication between end users and the OpenID. RPs have been asking for email address as part of the registration process, and OpenID providers always stand on the legs of privacy when asked for this, but the reality is that relieving email address leaves Providers vulnerable as their motives for OpenID are around engagement numbers. There are political challenges to overcome with OpenID before it can move forwards. I think that is why Facebook is walking over everyone here. They don't have to deal with those issues.