Identity/MozIDNotes

• RPX/Janrain Engage is similar; we should consider how what we does relates to that (and to their API)

• OpenID on Wikipedia, as some basic background

• OAuth vs OpenID

Roadmap whiteboard (2011.01.21)

Bits of -love- frustration

@ChrisMessina: "OpenID:OAuth::FireWire:USB"

Quora What's wrong with OpenID

37Signals "We'll be retiring support for Open ID on May 1, 2011

Tim GregoryFederated identity and why OpenID sucks

Dare Obasanjo Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web

takeaways/things to avoid

• For everyone else, OpenID sucks because it's:
  • hard
  • yet another login (instead of the one true login)
  • doesn't provide enough information to RPs (e.g. name, photo, etc.)
  • confusing (I'm a URL?)