Hi all

I think it is not that dramic. Read on openid.net itself:
http://openid.net/

> There was some 
> discussion<http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/>from a few 
> people yesterday claiming that Google's implementation was a fork
> of OpenID. Today, Eric Sachs, Google's lead on this effort, has another
> post<http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/moving-another-step-closer-to-single.html>responding
>  to some of this early criticism:
>
> That registration requirement also led to some confusion because users
> wanted to be able to use existing websites that accept OpenID 2.0 compliant
> logins by simply entering gmail.com (or in some cases their E-mail
> address) into the login boxes on those websites. … Once the XRDS file is
> live, end-users should be able to use the service by typing gmail.com in
> the OpenID field of any login box that supports OpenID 2.0, similar to how
> Yahoo users can type yahoo.com or their Yahoo E-mail address (In the
> meantime, if you feel really geeky, you can type
> https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id into an OpenID 2.0 login box).
>
> Cheers,
Fabian

2008/10/30 Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>
> On Oct 30, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote:
>
> > For the record, Google is now an Open ID provider :
> >
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/29/your-gmail-account-is-now-an-openid/
>
> Not really. AFAIU google is not using OpenID but an extension of
> OpenID that is not compatible with the spec if we are to believe this
> post:
> http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Markus Lanthaler
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> Microsoft just announced at the PDC that Windows Live ID becomes an
> >> OpenID
> >> Provider [1]. This will create millions of new OpenID users to the
> >> already
> >> existing ones of Yahoo, AOL, Blogger, Flickr, and so on.
> >>
> >> I can hardly wait to see my OpenID support to be integrated into
> >> the next
> >> XWiki release :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Markus
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://dev.live.com/blogs/devlive/archive/2008/10/27/421.aspx
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