Home Original page

[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu Sep 5 22:57:08 CEST 2013 
On Sep 5, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Sep 06, 2013, at 12:36 AM, Oleg Broytman wrote:
> 
>>  You cannot login using OpenID to most interesting popular sites.
>> GMail? No. Twitter? No. Facebook? FriendFeed? identi.ca? No, no, no.
> 
> I'd be surprised if you ever saw the big social networking sites support
> OpenID or Persona.  They want to own that space themselves, so probably have
> no business incentive to support 3rd party systems.

Not that it changes this statement at all but you wouldn't expect to see a Persona login
for gmail as persona solves the problem that people don't think of urls as personal
identifiers by replacing it with emails. So Gmail would be the Persona IdP

> 
> We're open source, and I think it benefits our mission to support open,
> decentralized, and free systems like OpenID and Persona.
> 
> -Barry
> _______________________________________________
> Python-Dev mailing list
> Python-Dev at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
> Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/donald%40stufft.io


-----------------
Donald Stufft
PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 801 bytes
Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130905/48e3cb8a/attachment.sig>
More information about the Python-Dev mailing list