On 3/23/07, Jeremy Frumkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While OpenID has potential within certain contexts, I have difficulty seeing it being quickly adopted by libraries, universities, or other entities that need to relate real identities to an OpenID. OpenID doesn¹t do trust; it explicitly says it is not a trust system. For libraries to adopt OpenID, they need to somehow link OpenID to a trust system. It isn¹t clear to me that there is enough added value to libraries at this point to adopt OpenID of course, I¹d be glad to buy someone a beer if they provide a use case to convince me otherwise ;-)
I can only offer you a beer of agreement; OpenID is fantastic for geeks who can control their online environment, but hopeless for normal people. The only trust given in the system is based on the trust of the ID source, and in many cases that's just as hard to come by in new shapes as it has been in the past. For *me* OpenID is fantastic, but for my wife it means nothing. I suspect most of our patrons are in the latter category, but hey, we're going to implement OpenID cross-system soon so at least we're trying. :) Alex -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchymist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps ------------------------------------------ http://shelter.nu/blog/ --------
