While OpenID has potential within certain contexts, I have difficulty seeing
it being quickly adopted by libraries, universities, or other entities that
need to relate real identities to an OpenID. OpenID doesnąt do trust; it
explicitly says it is not a trust system. For libraries to adopt OpenID,
they need to somehow link OpenID to a trust system. It isnąt clear to me
that there is enough added value to libraries at this point to adopt OpenID
of course, Iąd be glad to buy someone a beer if they provide a use case to
convince me otherwise ;-)
-- jaf
On 3/22/07 8:37 PM, "Ross Singer" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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