Hi All
You'll be interested to hear that the team who look after the existing
single sign on system are currently up to their collective eyeballs in
a project to replace it. It's not a small job, as you might imagine,
but it's off the ground at least.
The first step is to get the foundations in place, and then we'll be
in a position to build just about anything we need to... thinking
about whether that will mean using OpenID, or related things, is one
of our next steps. It's safe to say, however, that we won't be
reinventing any wheels if we can help it.
We know there's a ton of useful and amazing things that'll be possible
when we get this done... just bear with us while we sort it out.
... I think it would be lovely if the
BBC's standard single sign on service allowed the use of OpenID. Just
as long as I'm not the one who has to implement it all :)
That'll be us, then ;-)
Richard Northover
CSD, BBC Identity
On 21 Apr 2008, at 16:47, Andrew Bowden wrote:
I just looked at this post
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/04/blogs_getting_b
etter_finally.html#commentsanchor
and was about to comment when I saw that registration had
been enabled.
Any chance we could see OpenID[1] logins sometime soon?
The benefits of OpenID to the end user are pretty simple:
they don't need to have different accounts on every service
(in this case a blog) in existence.
I'm sure there is some Movable Type code which could be
borrowed for this.
Movable Type 4 comes with OpenID authentication built in - however the
new blogs installation isn't actually using Movable Type to handle
comments and registration.
Instead, comments are handled by the BBC's DNA software which runs
message boards, H2G2 and various other similar functions. DNA then
hooks into the BBC's standard single sign on service, which as you
might
guess, doesn't support OpenID.
Speaking on a personal basis only, I think it would be lovely if the
BBC's standard single sign on service allowed the use of OpenID. Just
as long as I'm not the one who has to implement it all :)
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