Brad
Fitzpatrick: Yadis is now
OpenID, and we’ll
soon have OpenID.net. (The
previous owner, David Lehn, gave it to us!) Props to Randy
for the sexy logo! Join the
mailing
list (still named yadis) if you want to help with all this. We
need programmers of all types for clients and servers.
It looks like the key design point of this approach is that
there is no centralized registration. None. If
you have a webserver, can add something like the following to your
template, and either can run a CGI script or know somebody who can
run one for you, then you are in.
While I doubt that this will have an appreciable impact on
spammers, if integrated with some sort of buddy list, and if it is
made seamless enough, it could allow people who want to author
pages that “mom can’t see” an effective way to do
so - without requiring that all of your buddies run the same
software or sign up for the same service.
Interesting, especially in relation to LiveJournal now belonging to Six Apart who have typekey.com :)
Sorry, should have clicked before posting. I see the mailing lst thread is wrong. The language lawyer part of my brain fires faster than than my motor neurons.
While I can’t speak for Six Apart’s actual intentions, there is no technical reason why TypeKey couldn’t provide an OpenID Identity Server which can validate all of its existing accounts. This would turn TypeKey into a big, public OpenID host with no other services attached.
OpenID is a distributed identity system, but one that’s actually distributed and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business. An OpenID-enabled site/blog lets you authenticate using your existing login...
Sam, this is fantastic! This is similar to what I was thinking of for the Credentia.org project (you may remember this from the LLUP spec from a while back) but this is so much simpler and makes so much more sense. If you could make use of the Credentia.org domain to establish as an interface to this and any future extensions to this project or other projects requiring various levels of user credentials I would happily click the right buttons if you were to send a transfer request from your prefered domain vendor.
Either way, this is FANTASTIC! So simple, so much sense! WOW!