There is no auth panacea. There's too many different use cases, too many players involved. You cannot create one "thing" that solves all the problems for all th

There is no auth panacea. There's too many different use cases, too many players involved. You cannot create one "thing" that solves all the problems for all the people. It was hubris. Instead, if "the industry" wants to solve "the problem", they need to write down all the use cases. Then we can argue about how to do that, and the result will probably be a couple different things that solve a couple different groups of use cases. But what will always suck is letting "the industry" dictate to us "tech peons" how that should happen. They always come up with bloated standards that are a pain in the balls. So rather than let "the industry" solve the problem, I think we need a loose confederation of open source contributors and corporate goons to meet on some forum somewhere and hash it out. Let the solutions (plural) come organically without a single player controlling the conversation.