Monthly Archives: October 2007

OpenID is not a provisioning engine

In talking about the future possibilities of OpenID 2.0 and the Attribute Exchange extension, James Henstridge mentions,

Imagine being able to update your shipping address in one place when you move house and having all the online retailers you use receive the updated address immediately. Or changing your email address […]

How well does your OpenID Provider stack up?

There are increasingly more specs in the OpenID space, and many of the extensions rely on XRDS documents to publicize support. To help enable that, I’ve been looking to update my yadis plugin for WordPress to automatically include the correct protocol support for the major OpenID Providers. Of course, in order to do […]

wildfires moving closer to home

A couple of people have called me in the last couple of days checking to see if Elisabeth and I were okay. She drove up to Los Angeles last night (just in time too) and we’re doing fine. Her parents are much closer in Aguanga, CA… about 12 miles northeast of the Poomacha […]

wp-openid intelligent defaults

Well, wp-openid is stabilizing and a 2.0 release is not far off, though there are still a few outstanding bugs that may get pushed off to version 2.1. I think we’ve come to a fairly stable point, have a much cleaner product, and it seems the community is anxious to have something they can […]

OpenID delegation and XFN

I contacted the FreeYourID folks earlier this week to ask them about adding an XFN link to my forwarding page at will.norris.name. They seemed receptive to the idea and should hopefully be adding that soon. I was then telling Chris Messina about it and I think he misunderstood me, but in the process […]