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

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: I

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 would

RE: Using email address as OpenID identifier

2008-04-09 Thread Paul E. Jones
James, I don't think we need SRV records to do this. NAPTR would suffice, as that would allow one to transform one string into another. But, it seems that there is an overwhelming preference for using some kind of string of undetermined structure to identify a user which is not of an e-mail

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

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