Earlier this month Jan Miksovsky described OpenID from the perspective of a typical user and how horribly confusing and unnecessary it seems upon initial introduction. It has made the rounds on the identity blogs as an insightful, eye opening critique and has received some interesting responses. I wanted to add my own perspective on what OpenID means to me. I think Jan is absolutely right on and found myself nearly laughing at how painfully silly OpenID must seem to most people. The problem is OpenID is not ultimately about Single Sign-On (SSO) even though that seems to be the way most developers view it.
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