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

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.