Awhile ago Brian Kissel was working on compiling statistics from various implementors to help judge success. Here are the two stats which Facebook shares: - More than 100 million Facebook users engage with Facebook on external websites every month - Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook
--David On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:00 PM, SitG Admin <[email protected] > wrote: > Would it be considered a failure state or a success if OpenID retains its >> existing design but few in the marketplace adopt it? >> > > Are we talking total market share or number of adopters? > > The former can be covered just as well by a large number of small players, > since users often have accounts with more than one party. Adoption is better > achieved by gaining the support of those very few large players (who, > between them, claim a majority of the user base), but how many past > protocols have ultimately failed because they were aimed at (and served > *primarily*) only those larger players? > > > Taking a less-than-pragmatic approach that meets the needs of a number of >> classes of stakeholders seems to work entirely against the goals of >> achieving more user-centricity in the marketplace. OpenID Connect may not be >> the ideal long term solution, and that fine with me. If the next generation >> of identity technologies gets baked without the OpenID foundation playing a >> role, then I think we might have missed a very critical window to actually >> shift things in the direction that we prefer in the long term. >> > > I agree here as well: how far into step do we wish to fall, then? > > > -Shade > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs >
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