openID has it achieved the openness it aimed for
Posted by Ian Holsman
i’m a bit behind on net news lately..
I just read a big announcement that yahoo is supporting openID.
But when I read the fine print i was disappointed. What it says is yahoo will let you use your existing Yahoo ID on other sites, but it won’t let you use existing OpenID service provider elsewhere. AOL is in the same boat.. I can use my AOL ID on external sites, but not use a external openId to log into their finance site (they say it’s going to happen as soon as they can get the product managers OK with it at least)
So.. at the moment I think all of this openID support is just fluff for most of the large sites.
the only win I can see is for smaller sites, who want to make it easier for people to register