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. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
