<div dir="ltr">I have been sooo busy that I did not produce any report on OpenID developments in Japan since last I have done for mixi back in August. <br><br>There has been bunch of notable events since then. <br><br><span class="d3blogEntryCreated">2008-9-12 Livedoor Blog adopted "mixi OpenID" group authentication for their blog service. <br>
It allows the blog article to be published to a limited group. The same is true for commenting etc. <br> Livedoor is one of the major blog provider in Japan (besides many other things.) They are also acting as OP. <br>
<br></span><span class="d3blogEntryCreated">2008-9-29 NEC released an Authentication Platform Software "NC7000-3A-OI" that supports OpenID. <br> It is a federated identity system. It supports both SAML and OpenID. <br>
<br>2008-10-02 SourceForge.JP started to support OpenID <br> Unlike <a href="http://sourceforge.net">sourceforge.net</a>, it also supports XRI/i-names. <br><br>2008-10-06 BIGLOBE started offering OpenID<br> One of the biggest ISP in Japan, NEC BIGLOBE started the service as an OP. <br>
It uses EV-SSL, and is https only OP. <br><br>2008-10-06 Rakuten, the biggest online merchant in Japan, started offering OpenID based payment<br> </span><span class="d3blogEntryCreated">Rakuten, the biggest online merchant in Japan, started offering OpenID based payment. <br>
By using this system, you will not required to give out your credit card number. <br> (You are still required to input security code of the credit card, though.)<br><br>2008-10-15 Internet.com Survay: 28% Japanese Internet User are aware of OpenID. <br>
Accroding to the survay by <a href="http://internet.com">internet.com</a> and marsh research which was conducted <br> over 300 internet user (50% male, 50% female, 20% each of 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s), <br> 263 of them were using sites that requires authentication. Among them, 28% of them <br>
knew about OpenID, and 15% were using OpenID. <br> This is a big increase compared to a similar survay back in February where <br> only 12% knew about OpenID and only 1.2% of them were using it. <br><br>Cheers, <br></span><br>
-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br><a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br>OpenID Foundation Japan<br>
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