On 8 June 2010 17:39, Story Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8 Jun 2010, at 07:17, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > > > If Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and the rest of the companies supporting the > OpenID effort deployed the server-side half of this proposal, and spent a > little money on developing plug-ins for all the major browsers (with Google > and Microsoft able to also include it in the next release of their browser), > it will create the tipping point in getting some form of identity selector > in the browser. > > > > It was one thing for the OpenID community of 3 years ago to hack the > protocol around the limitations of that time. These arguments are just > insincere when they come from Google, now that you have a pretty successful > browser (especially considering its age) and massively huge web footprint to > promote such a feature. > > Why should browser manufacturers bother to install this in the browser and > maintain it, when they already have an excellent identification protocol > built into https? > > The fact that this group wishes to ignore the existence of SSL does not > make it not be there. > > Just check out the video of it on http://webid.myxwiki.org/ > to see it working! >
I would really like to see better support for client certificates in browsers so that this became less clunky around the certificate management aspects... > > Henry > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs >
_______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
