Google Goes OpenID?
Google: “Starting today, we are providing limited access to an API for an OpenID identity provider”; http://is.gd/58hd
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 20:01 on 29. October 2008 Permalink |
RWW: “This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet.”
Tim Rueb 14:03 on 30. October 2008 Permalink |
Limited access? So much for open! 8)
Gerrit Eicker 14:44 on 30. October 2008 Permalink |
I guess it’s just a matter of time: Gut Ding will Weile haben. ;)
Gerrit Eicker 15:38 on 30. October 2008 Permalink |
NeoSmart: “Basically, Google has rewritten OpenID. Not only is it not exactly the same as the current OpenID protocol, it’s so different that existing OpenID relying parties won’t be able to use it. Only a handful of ‘partner sites’ have been updated to understand Google’s perverted version of the OpenID standard, and anyone else hoping to authenticate via ‘OpenID’ to Google’s servers will need to do the same.”
Recordon: “The piece that Google is currently doing differently is requiring pre-registration of each OpenID Relying Party before users can login to a given site. This does break the common deployment of OpenID on the web today, but Eric Sachs of Google has said on the OpenID mailing list … that this is temporary as they work to stabilize their OpenID Provider: ‘We just need to do the standard scaling, stability, translation quality, etc. evaluation to make sure there are no major problems. If we are lucky, that won’t take much time. However it is more then likely that we will need to tweak things in our user interface to make it easier to understand, and unfortunately translating any such tweaks into 40+ languages takes awhile.’”