On 3/22/07, Don McMorris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Ryan's message (I guess seeing "academia") made me think of Athens,
> which made me further think "Hey, Subscription Databases are just
> ITCHING for OpenID!".  I mean, come on... The methods we have for
> database authentication aren't working well...


Well, naturally, academia has thought of this and overengineered it to
death:

 http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/

which is why it's taken 7years so far and there is still very few
implementations.

-Ross.