While OpenID has potential within certain contexts, I have difficulty seeing it being quickly adopted by libraries, universities, or other entities that need to relate real identities to an OpenID. OpenID doesn¹t do trust; it explicitly says it is not a trust system. For libraries to adopt OpenID, they need to somehow link OpenID to a trust system. It isn¹t clear to me that there is enough added value to libraries at this point to adopt OpenID of course, I¹d be glad to buy someone a beer if they provide a use case to convince me otherwise ;-)
-- jaf On 3/22/07 8:37 PM, "Ross Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/07, Don McMorris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Ryan's message (I guess seeing "academia") made me think of Athens, >> > which made me further think "Hey, Subscription Databases are just >> > ITCHING for OpenID!". I mean, come on... The methods we have for >> > database authentication aren't working well... > > > Well, naturally, academia has thought of this and overengineered it to > death: > > http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ > > which is why it's taken 7years so far and there is still very few > implementations. > > -Ross. > =============================================== Jeremy Frumkin The Gray Chair for Innovative Library Services 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331-4501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541.737.9928 541.737.3453 (Fax) 541.230.4483 (Cell) =============================================== " Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. " - Emerson
