Allen Tom for OpenID Board!
OpenID is the foundation for distributed identity, and I'm proud to be working with the OpenID community, and also behind the scenes at Yahoo, to make the vision of OpenID a reality. Unlike previous attempts at centralized internet identity, OpenID is not owned or controlled by anyone, but is developed transparently and in the Open.I'm OpenID's #1 fan at Yahoo, and I'm running for an OpenID Foundation community board seat. Having a board seat will help give me more credibility when I pitch OpenID to Yahoo's engineers and decision makers. I personally believe that users own their data, and should be empowered to grant informed consent to share their data. Vote for me, and I'll be happy to be the OpenID Community's represenative inside Yahoo.
To vote for me, please join the OpenID Foundation.
posted by AllenTomDude at
2:49 PM
10 Comments:
This is a test comment, using MyOpenID.com
This is a test comment, using my Flickr Photos URL as an OpenID
This is a test comment, using my AOL ScreenName as an OpenID
This is a test comment, using my LiveJournal account as an OpenID
This is test comment, using Yahoo's OpenID Provider (without directed identity) as my OpenID. Sigh. :(
Saw your ad on Facebook ... I'm impressed!
However, I'm disappointed that you don't allow anonymous comments on your blog. It's bad enough that you don't value anonymous speech; since this is all I know about your views, my initial assumption is that you also don't value other aspects of privacy. Or is there something I'm missing?
Hi Jon, thanks for clicking on my ad. I'd just prefer that people post comments using OpenID, and OpenIDs are pretty easy to come by.
Thanks for the candor, Allen.
One of OpenID's major potential advantages over Facebook Connect is on the privacy side. But it seems to me that your response boils down to "I don't care what others think about privacy, I want them to use OpenID". That's not a good way to get potential allies on your side.
Does anybody running against you have a better position on privacy?
Hi Jon, one of the main value propositions of OpenID is the ability for a user to authenticate themselves with a website (like this blog). Ideally, the user would be able to sign-in using an identifier that is meaningful to the site. Signing in with a completely meaningless identifier isn't that useful.
That being said, OpenID 2.0 Providers like Yahoo (which is the OP that I designed) and Google both issue relatively opaque machine generated identifiers which by themselves do not share any information about the user. For instance the really ugly identifier in comment #5 on this post is a Yahoo OpenID.
At Yahoo, we believe that users must provide informed consent before sharing any information about themselves when they sign into a site using their Yahoo OpenID. I've been working with my peers at the other large identity providers to document OpenID best practices so that OpenID is implemented consistently, with the user always informed and in control of the data.
Oh wow! Good luck Allen! I'm sure you'd be great on the OpenID Board, though sadly I can't afford a membership to vote for you. :)
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Jenna
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