Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-10 Thread James Henstridge
On 10/04/2008, Brad Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:40 AM, James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On 10/04/2008, Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that kind of misses the point. The *namespace* that google > manages > > > is no

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-10 Thread Brad Fitzpatrick
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:40 AM, James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/04/2008, Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that kind of misses the point. The *namespace* that google > manages > > is now open for business as an OpenID provider. It's an unanticipated > > side-

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-10 Thread James Henstridge
On 10/04/2008, Vinay Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that kind of misses the point. The *namespace* that google manages > is now open for business as an OpenID provider. It's an unanticipated > side-effect of the APIs. > > I think it's kind of a big deal, actually, in terms of how OpenID

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread John Panzer
Any sufficiently advanced web site system is indistinguishable from an OP. Or, rather, can be turned into an OP. :) Vinay Gupta wrote: I think that kind of misses the point. The *namespace* that google manages is now open for business as an OpenID provider. It's an unanticipated side-effect

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Madsen
if and when Google manages its own namespace as OpenIDs, I hope they provide more consistent QoS - I havent seen this one work yet paul Vinay Gupta wrote: > > I think that kind of misses the point. The *namespace* that google > manages is now open for business as an OpenID provider. It's an >

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread Vinay Gupta
I think that kind of misses the point. The *namespace* that google manages is now open for business as an OpenID provider. It's an unanticipated side-effect of the APIs. I think it's kind of a big deal, actually, in terms of how OpenID is right from an engineering perspective and how it c

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread John Ehn
I agree. I think this is an excellent technology demonstration, but it is a third-party, not Google, that is enabling the ID. John 2008/4/9 Immad Akhund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When Google eventually does make a proper OpenID provider all the OpenIDs > provided by openid-provider.appspot.com wou

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread Immad Akhund
When Google eventually does make a proper OpenID provider all the OpenIDs provided by openid-provider.appspot.com would not match. Would get very confusing apart from advanced users that understand the distinction. Immad On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Paul Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Madsen
I expect Google might have a (legal) opinion on characterizing this application as 'Google OpenID' I think I'll wait for Google itself to enable my Gmail as an OpenID. paul Vinay Gupta wrote: > http://openid-provider.appspot.com/ > > Somebody used their app hosting service and implemented an Op

Google OpenID is now live

2008-04-09 Thread Vinay Gupta
http://openid-provider.appspot.com/ Somebody used their app hosting service and implemented an OpenID provider. That kind of changes things, doesn't it? Vinay -- Vinay Gupta - Designer, Hexayurt Project - an excellent public domain refugee shelter system Gizmo Project VOIP: 775-743