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OpenID needs to go away so that something good can replace it. It's a terrible implentation of a good idea, and the longer it limps along, alienating people, t

OpenID needs to go away so that something good can replace it. It's a terrible implentation of a good idea, and the longer it limps along, alienating people, the harder it will be to get its replacement accepted. OpenID's contribution to the Single Signon Quest has been to prove beyond a doubt that nobody wants to remember a URL for their username. Yes, we all know it's the same amount of typing as an email address, but at the end of the day, people are trained to type their email repeatedly and are thus good at it (and remember it). So please, OpenID, hurry up go away. The thing that takes your place will probably be pretty good because of you.

TomOfTTB 17y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you. I don't deny OpenID's problems. But to me the issue is whether OpenID is completely unredeemable. Which I think it's far from being. If nothing else it already has two things going for it. The first is positive press and the second is a legion of fans (some of which border on sycophants) So the question is wouldn't it be better to fix the problems in this spec rather than make another. I think so. In fact I think trying to create a new spec can be a disaster. If you need proof of why this is ture look at all the people who continue to use RSS over Atom because of a standards fight that happened years ago.
- jasonkester 17y ago
  You're right that redesigning it from scratch will probably make it even more complicated. I guess that's a point against. The tough part of modifying the existing implementation will be the URLs-as-Usernames thing. They seem set on that and it just isn't flying.
jmillikin 17y ago
OpenID allows you to use an email as an ID, assuming your email provider supports it. e: see http://eaut.org/example/ http://eaut.org/example/ to find out if your email provider supports OpenID resolution.

TomOfTTB 17y ago

I'm not sure I agree with you. I don't deny OpenID's problems. But to me the issue is whether OpenID is completely unredeemable. Which I think it's far from being. If nothing else it already has two things going for it. The first is positive press and the second is a legion of fans (some of which border on sycophants) So the question is wouldn't it be better to fix the problems in this spec rather than make another. I think so. In fact I think trying to create a new spec can be a disaster. If you need proof of why this is ture look at all the people who continue to use RSS over Atom because of a standards fight that happened years ago.

jasonkester 17y ago
You're right that redesigning it from scratch will probably make it even more complicated. I guess that's a point against. The tough part of modifying the existing implementation will be the URLs-as-Usernames thing. They seem set on that and it just isn't flying.

jmillikin 17y ago

OpenID allows you to use an email as an ID, assuming your email provider supports it. e: see http://eaut.org/example/ http://eaut.org/example/ to find out if your email provider supports OpenID resolution.