Re: [xwiki-devs] Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider

There was some discussion<http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/>fr… a few people yesterday claiming that Google's implementation was a fork of OpenID. Today, Eric Sachs, Google's lead on this effort, has another post<http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/moving-another-step… to some of this early criticism: That registration requirement also led to some confusion because users wanted to be able to use existing websites that accept OpenID 2.0 compliant logins by simply entering gmail.com (or in some cases their E-mail address) into the login boxes on those websites. … Once the XRDS file is live, end-users should be able to use the service by typing gmail.com in the OpenID field of any login box that supports OpenID 2.0, similar to how Yahoo users can type yahoo.com or their Yahoo E-mail address (In the meantime, if you feel really geeky, you can type https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id into an OpenID 2.0 login box). Cheers,

On Oct 30, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean wrote: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/29/your-gmail-account-is-now-an-openid/ Not really. AFAIU google is not using OpenID but an extension of OpenID that is not compatible with the spec if we are to believe this post: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/ Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs