@swilson@... OpenID is lipstick on a pig.
OpenID is little more than an end-user convenience. Because it's so easily spoofable and subvertible, it's HIGHLY unlikely you'll see it being used as the authn means for secure or sensitive sites such as banking, financial, medical, government sites and services.
The IDMS (Identity Metasystem) is a good technology-agnostic framework for the exchange of authn/z claims and offers. CardSpace was a great first attempt at implementing a client agent for the IDMS, and helped identify the issues with providing cross-platform, cross-device, ubiquitous, open, standards based exchange of credentials and claims.
UProve augments the client agent technology platform and resolves a number of the issues CardSpace alone was unable to resolve.
Again, until we have a highly secure, very usable, ubiquitous replacement for usernames and passwords, we'll see continual development in this space.
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