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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Mar 15, 2007 1:00PM

On 15/03/07, tedd < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Err, as I said -- "OpenID" -- as found here: http://openid.net/
>
> As for AOL and M$, I may be mistaken, but I seriously doubt that they
> will provide anything leading edge.

AOL are making the AIM Pages an OpenID provider, as have Six Apart's
Vox and many other sites.

> That's part of the problem -- a user may have to register with
> several providers to cover all the places where s/he may want to post.

No, no, no. Several providers make themselves OpenID providers, but
they're all OpenID compatible (that's the beauty of it - OpenID is
decentralised, unlike MS Passport) and so you only have to have a
minimum of one OpenID in order to log in to OpenID-enabled sites (such
as Magnolia - http://ma.gnolia.com/)

> Am I wrong?

Not sure, but you might want to check Simon Willison's OpenID
screencast and other blog posts, which explain it all rather well:

"OpenID's biggest problem is its learning curve. Using it as actually
really simple, but if you're not technical the amount of stuff you
have to know before you can understand it is enormous. If you are
technical, it just doesn't seem like it should work—there are a bunch
of questions that come up every time OpenID is discussed anywhere
("but surely there's nothing to stop someone else from spoofing your
ID") which OpenID has answers for, but which are easily
misunderstood."
http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/22/screencast/
http://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/12/slidecast/

Best regards,

Tim