Hello,
2009/4/27 Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>om>:
Is there some benefit with being a provider? Why not
just accept id's for login? There's way too many providers
as it is.
A lot of people have expressed interest in having Wikimedia as their
provider, given the large number of projects that Wikimedia has this
makes sense to some extent. Some people would also enjoy the novelty
value of Wikimedia being their OpenID provider. It may also make the
early stages of deployment and testing easier (perhaps as a prelude to
accepting external providers).
2009/4/27 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
It's too late. You need to make that kind of
decision when you first
start. Dealing with conflicts when we went over to global accounts
within Wikimedia was hard enough, dealing with them if we went over to
accepting OpenIDs would be a nightmare.
I think OpenIDs would (should?) be tied to accounts, not used as usernames.
Regards,
Robert Leverington