On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 09:27 -0700, Lucas Gonze wrote: > Using economics rather than comp sci as the rationale makes a lot more > sense to me. There are a lot of economic scenarios where the actors > have to be truly independent. > > One flavor of this situation is when the actors are already independent > and are going to stay that way, yet the comp sci needs to find a way to > knit them together. Consolidating your identity across multiple social > networks is an example problem, and OpenID is an example solution.
A minor nit here. OpenID is also dependent on DNS. That doesn't really detract from your point, but I would still like to note that OpenID is subject to centralized control via DNS. -- Eric Hopper - http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper/
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