On 10/2/07, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brandorr wrote: > > > One thing I was wondering, has there been any thought to making the > > existing datastore of IDs an OpenID resource, and have any other > > applications that need to authenticate use the OpenID protocol to > > authenticate? > > > > -Brian > > > > P.S. - I know it's a crazy idea, but sometimes the crazy ones are the good > > ones. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2007-June/003531.html, > about half-way down: > > ---------- > > For distributed authentication, have you looked into OpenID? > > I've thought about it, yes. The problem is that it is still a fairly > young technology - for example there was a question yesterday on one of > the internal Sun email lists about code libraries for OpenID, and there > really aren't any available yet. By basing our mechanism on older, > simpler technology we will make it easier for people who want to use > something other than Java to participate - e.g. XMLRPC & SSL libraries > exist for languages such as Python and Perl. However, I *have* used > some of the same techniques OpenID uses - for example the cross-domain > cookie mechanism. > ----------
OpenID libs exist for: PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java (at the very least, I am sure there are more). They may be immature technologies, but it has reached the tipping point among thought leaders.. (I suspect 2.0 will be much more widely deployed.) We will be rolling out soon, and I feel that it would a great step to be able to get on board OpenID now, if it makes it easier to be an OpenID site going forward.. -Brian > > -- > Alan Burlison > -- > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
