[tdwg-tag] OpenID - is it for us?

[Markus Döring]

Roger,
its a tricky subject. For me the biggest drawback of OpenID is that it  
needs as a client a browser for authentication, so it cant be used to  
secure webservices (openid2.0 might have improvements). Nearly any  
identitiy system I came across can also work as an OpenID provider by  
the way, CAS,Shibboleth,Google all work fine.

Markus




On 7 May, 2008, at 9:04, Roger Hyam wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with OpenID?
>
> http://openid.net/
>
> Would this be a useful and simple way to provide cohesion within our  
> community if one of the bigger members (GBIF, TDWG, EoL etc) acted  
> as an Open ID provider?
>
> I know there were presentations on Shibboleth at TDWG 2007.
>
> http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/
>
> OpenID seems simpler but does no authorization I believe (it is just  
> an ID solution). Could the two be integrated for those who need to  
> share notions of authorization...
>
> I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
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