2009/4/27 Brion Vibber <br...@wikimedia.org>: > On 4/27/09 1:54 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/4/27 Chad<innocentkil...@gmail.com>: >>> Is there some benefit with being a provider? Why not >>> just accept id's for login? There's way too many providers >>> as it is. >> >> It's too late. You need to make that kind of decision when you first >> start. Dealing with conflicts when we went over to global accounts >> within Wikimedia was hard enough, dealing with them if we went over to >> accepting OpenIDs would be a nightmare. > > Not really, since they'd have their own freakish namespace. :)
So everyone using OpenID would have to have a username with a certain prefix or something? That would be really annoying. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
