ongoing · OpenID at Work:
OpenID (see my previous write-up) is a cheap-and-cheerful easy-to-implement way to bind an identity to a URI. It allows a Web site talking to a browser to look at the URI and reliably ask its server to confirm (or not) that the person behind the browser has OpenID rights to the URI. It’s simple, straightforward, and it works.

As much as I’m a fan of OpenID, I just don’t see enterprise IT adopting it. I don’t even see non-enterprise services adopting it with any degree of increasing momentum. Software developers like the idea but believe it falls far short of their requirements, so they aren’t investing much in the way of supporting it, and I don’t see Sun making a big impact.

We talked about this at the IBM mashup summit… it’s worth discussing further but it’s not going to solve the identity problem we have today.

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