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.