OpenID Gets Star Backing

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The OpenID Foundation announced today that Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign would become its first corporate board members. "This really puts, very strongly and clearly, an important first piece of the puzzle in place," said Bill Washburn, executive director of the OpenID Foundation.

We've talked before about openID and it's potential use for SIP credentials/authentication.

Good post from January by Dan York who is getting annoyed that openID is getting a ton of support but still very few sites actually allow you to use it:-

http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/ ... ports.html

I'm currently looking at implementing openID on VoIP User, but I'm unsure of the impact that may have on forum functionality. Any openID experts in our presence that can advise?

Reply from aswath on Feb 09, 2008 - 03:20 PM

My recollection was that you had unequivocally rejected my proposal of using OpenID for SIP authentication. So I revisited that post (http://www.voipuser.org/forum_topic_8760.html) to confirm. There I noticed that subsequently you changed your position somewhat. In the last comment you grant that OpenID will be useful for P2P scenario, but you continue to maintain that OSP is better suited for C/S models. I disagree on this point as well. Consider the scenario that my provider is a small organization that can not afford to be part of this consortium to which your provider belongs to. With the model you are advocating, I suspect that you and I can not communicate with each other. But with OpenID, your provider will be able to authenticate me and allow me if you happen to identify me in a whitelist. So if OSP provides a macro whitelist, OpenID is able to facilitate enforcement of an individual's whitelist. C/S and P2P are extraneous.

Reply from satphoneguy on Feb 09, 2008 - 07:02 PM

it would be great to embrace openID. i say that knowing that VOIPuser is a site that currently requires sign up to participate. as an advocate for anonymous web surfing what concerns me most is that as often as not openID and similar platforms are used as a way of additional tracking of individuals. sites that currently require sing up great move to openID. but i have also seen a lot of sites(mostly blogs and forums) that are going from completely anonymous posting to require sign up and allowing openID for that purpose. in the end platforms like openID may lead to less privacy. again it is concerning that yahoo, google, etc. will issue openID but not accept from a third party. i would like to be able to receive my openID from a small entity that i have a relationship of trust with and than open a gmail account and SIP account, etc. with some of the bigger operators without having to go through their sign up process. this is not likely to happen since so many of the bigger organizations on the internet are as interested in data mining as offering the services they advertise.

Reply from dean on Feb 10, 2008 - 12:17 AM

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My recollection was that you had unequivocally rejected my proposal of using OpenID for SIP authentication.

Sorry, I should clarify - I'm only talking about login credentials for the VoIP User website here (forum etc) and not VoIP User SIP account authentication.

And yes, my personal bias is still towards OSP for inter-peering SIP networks in a secure manner (server/server).

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Consider the scenario that my provider is a small organization that can not afford to be part of this consortium to which your provider belongs to.

I would predict such a provider wouldn't survive, much in the same way that an internet ISP that didn't have peering arrangements with other ISP's globally could not survive.

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