[LINK] RFI: OpenID

[Stephen Edgar]

Via the OpenID mailing A long article but looks very good.
I'll read that one myself over the weekend.

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A great and very comprehensive overview on OpenID has been posted on consumingexperience.com:

OpenID: intro & howto for non-techies
http://www.consumingexperience.com/2006/12/openid-introduction.html

Carsten
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Regards,

Stephen Edgar
Netweb Interactive

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From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke
Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 5:59 PM
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Subject: [LINK] RFI: OpenID

Can anyone point to an accessible description of OpenID?

Like a lot of open source, the sites and the documentation are very
much by-geeks/for-geeks.

I suspect that it's just a latter-day MS Passport, but with:
-   open specs
-   more adopters (among corporations, if not among people)
-   the scope for stronger linkage between the id and the entity
-   the intention that each person have only one id

In short, it seems to be just supply-side federated identity management:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/IdMngt-0804.html#RTFToC14
Exhibit 5D: 'Federated Identity Management'
(or Interoperable Multi-Supplier Multi-Organisation Single-SignOn)

But I'd welcome any leads to a description or analysis somewhere
between the sales blarney at:  http://www.openid.org/
and the highly segmented and detailed (and of course necessary)
tech-speak at:  http://openid.net/developers/specs/

Thanks!

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