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Portable Contacts. Blog Archive » PAPE Approved as an OpenID Specification. The OpenID Foundation membership has approved OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0 as an OpenID specification by a vote of forty-two to three, with seven abstentions.

Blog Archive » PAPE Approved as an OpenID Specification

This is a significant development for the OpenID community for two reasons: First, this is the first new specification to be developed under the OpenID Foundation’s IPR policies and procedures, which ensure that all are free to use it (like the existing approved specifications) – paving the way for additional specifications to come. Second, the PAPE specification provides an important security enhancement to OpenID Authentication, which can be used with both OpenID 1.1 and OpenID 2.0. Specifically, the PAPE Specification enables Relying Parties to request that OpenID Providers employ specified authentication policies when authenticating users and for OpenID Providers to inform the Relying Parties which policies were actually used. . – Mike Jones, for the PAPE Working Group. Google is Now an OpenID Provider - ReadWriteWeb. This is turning out to be quite a good week for OpenID, an increasingly popular mechanism for creating and managing a single identity across the Internet.

Google is Now an OpenID Provider - ReadWriteWeb

On Monday, Microsoft announced that it would give every Windows Live user an OpenID account, and today, Google announced a very similar plan. Google will allow web services to join a limited test of an API based on the OpenID 2.0 protocol that will give Google Account users the option to sign in to websites with their Google credentials and without having to sign up for a new account at those sites. Among the launch partners for this new API are Zoho, Plaxo, and Buxfer. Don't Mention OpenID One of the key results of Yahoo's OpenID usability study was that users did not understand OpenID and what its logo stands for.

IEEESecPriv-MarApr2008-MalerReed-Venn.pdf (application/pdf Object) Dialogue - Scott Kveton, Chairman, OpenID Foundation.