Posted at 7:27 pm on October 30, 2008 by The Shared Admin
This is a historic week for OpenID. Google and Microsoft announced the release of code to support OpenID 2.0 across their most important properties. On Monday, Microsoft, announced OpenID 2.0 support for their 460 million users on the LiveID platform. On Wednesday Google said it will be supporting OpenID 2.0 for any user that has a Google account. Both of these deployments are great news for the OpenID community and the Internet at large. It can be safely said that within the coming months, every single user on the Internet will have an OpenID.
There was some discussion from 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 responding 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).
Although these are both considered “preview releases” by both companies, the fact that they have put code out there that developers can start to work with is absolutely fantastic. Both Google and Microsoft have stated that these are testing implementations and as such, their may be certain limitations while they work on localization, scaling and general UI.
Mike Jonestalks about some of the details of the Microsoft LiveID testing:
One feature of the OpenID 2.0 implementation that I’d like to call your attention to is that they give users a choice, on a per-relying party basis, whether to use a site-specific OpenID URL at the site for privacy reasons, or whether to use a public identifier for yourself – explicitly enabling correlation of your identity interactions on different sites.
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Posted at 8:37 am on December 3, 2007 by David Recordon
As a great way to lead into the Internet Identity Workshop this week in Mountain View CA, both Microsoft and Google shipped OpenID features in beta products this past Friday. Microsoft Research announced an experimental Provider while Google announced the ability to comment on Blogger blogs using OpenID.
As some backstory, this past February at the RSA Conference Bill Gates and Craig Mundie announced Microsoft’s support of OpenID 2.0. (See Read/WriteWeb’s coverage…they’re the first result on Google) Since that time there has been a lot of great progress made which culminates with a posting by Kim Cameron’s (Microsoft’s Lead Identity Architect). In addition to being able to authenticate to MyOpenID.com and VeriSign’s PIP using CardSpace, the promise to develop a specification which conveys stronger authentication was used has seen its second (quite stable) draft. We’re very quickly getting to a world where OpenID can be used to move around the web, CardSpace (or other technologies such as tokens) can be used to authenticate to your OpenID Provider, and the Relying Party can find out that you didn’t use a password at all. In addition to this technological work, Microsoft has been incredibly involved in helping the OpenID Community develop an IPR Policy and Process that can be used moving forward to ensure that future specifications are not patent encumbered. You can learn more about the IPR work underway at http://openid.net/foundation/intellectual-property/.
Up until Friday little had been heard from Google in regards to OpenID support. The Blogger Beta has a very clear interface for both enabling and commenting with OpenID. Additionally as the Blogger team is using the OpenID4Java library mainly developed by Sxip Identity, they should have support for OpenID 2.0 as well. Google has also announced that work is underway to have Blogger operate as an OpenID Provider as well. Many others have written about the Blogger announcement too.
All in all, an extremely great way to finish the week before IIW!
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