On Feb 15, 12:16 pm, Dick Hardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Liam wrote:
> > The "Identity Space players" aren't important to its success, only the
> > email providers, e.g. Yahoo, MSN, AOL, ISPs…
>
> um … all the email providers are players in the identity space … Google is an 
> email provider.

Facebook & Twitter are the big ones obviously. Plain email doesn't
really compete with their ID offerings.

> The identity community burned lots of bridges with RPs (Relying Parties) when 
> the promise of OpenID and/or InfoCards did not deliver. This will make it 
> harder for BrowserID to get adoption in the short term. For many RPs, 
> Facebook / Twitter / Google is good enough.

Lots of bridges? I don't see that. Sites offering OAuth logins are a
relatively recent phenomenon. I think BrowserID support will be a
checklist item, where you drop in a module and are done. Sure, more
geeky sites will pick it up first.

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