Microsoft supports OpenID
So I haven’t had any time to talk to Kim or Dick - but here’s my take on this deal between Microsoft and their CardSpace/InfoCards standards efforts and the OpenID community (Sxip, JanRain and Verisign.)
1. This is all about getting folks to grok Vista’s new whiz bang ID system. Think about how much money is behind that!
2. Kim’s focus and the reason for his trip to Portland in the first place - was to discuss how OpenID can be a piece of the InfoCards puzzle. That was accomplished and Sxip, JanRain and Verisign have agreed to go along with it. Coolio.
3. And Kim has agreed to recognize OpenID’s independence, by inclusion in too many to mention numerous promos, contests, special events, promos, contests - did I mention prizes? …that he (Kim) can flow to the OpenID community (read: money, payoffs, bribes or rescuing lost babies) as long as we go along with Microsoft - in some semblance. The goal here is to get the best intentions and well wishes of the OpenID community towards Microsoft. How much is that worth?
4. Kim has said all along that Cardspace was not about dominating, but cooperating and he’s putting his money where his mouth is - again. He made the meta-identity layer - open and available for free - and now he’s bending over backwards to mesh into us. That’s why I love Kim so much.
5. Where is SixApart in all this? Here they have the guy who invented OpenID and their LiveJournal community all over it, but yet it seems as if they don’t give a dam what happens. The hooks into VOX are still not available. I just don’t get 6A in these matters. Why NOT come out and support this stuff?
6. But guess what? No mention of the attribute exchange - and of all the hard work facing us all - to get our stuff connected up to Windows Live Spaces, Vista, the XBox and their new ‘connected’ strategy in general. This is what’s key.
6. What does this have to do with the Live Clipboard - and Live Spaces supporting OpenID? Or XFN/FOAF for that mater?
Without Import/Export - we have no context - IMHO.
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February 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Where is SixApart in all this? Here they have the guy who invented OpenID and their LiveJournal community all over it, but yet it seems as if they don’t give a dam what happens. The hooks into VOX are still not available. I just don’t get 6A in these matters. Why NOT come out and support this stuff?
LJ is an OpenID client and server, and Vox is a server with client support coming soon. MT has a plugin for both client and server, and MT Athena (the next major release) will have OpenID baked in. Every single TypeKey account (and thus, every TypePad account) is an OpenID, and we’re encouraging support for OpenID over adoption our own TypeKey API.
Plus we’ve blogged about this from the beginning.
Oh, and we provide more OpenID identities than anyone else in the world. And one of our guys invented OpenID. How much more do you want us to do? Unlike Verisign or especially Microsoft, we have resource constraints. Let’s hold some feet to the fire, but start with the folks who haven’t done anything, right? I hate to see us getting dinged for merely doing more than pretty much anybody else to encourage real adoption.
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