Update on Google's OpenID Plans for 2010

Update on OpenID Plans for 2010 OpenID UX Summit, Chicago Joseph Smarr Feb 25, 2010

Google strongly believes in the vision of OpenID
“ I’m incredibly excited about this unique opportunity to turbo-charge my passionate pursuit of a Social Web that is more open, interoperable, decentralized, and firmly in the control of users .” -- me on joining Google
… 5 weeks into my new job, I’m even more excited!

What are people asking us for?

What are people asking us for?
More APIs attached to our OpenID Provider (esp. integration with Buzz)
More high-quality OPs (other than Google)
Start accepting OpenIDs from other providers (become an RP)

What are we doing about it?

More APIs attached to our OpenID Provider (esp. integration with Buzz)
Adding more APIs as quickly as we can build them
Buzz now lets us work towards the “virtuous cycle of social discovery”
Using open standards for APIs and data wherever possible
Portable Contacts, Activity Streams, PubSubHubbub, etc.
Supporting OAuth WRAP Profile (in addition to OAuth)
Initial live support for some APIs expected in March / April

More high-quality OPs (other than Google)
Participating in OpenID summits (like this one!) and co-hosting with MSFT in April
Will be among initial OIX-certified providers in March (for govt adoption)
Will continue to maintain a best-in-class OpenID provider and share learnings

Start accepting OpenIDs from other providers (become an RP)
Actually, we’re already an RP for >1000 Google Apps domains!
We still feel a lot of RP pain (need separate account to use Google Reader, etc.)
Can’t solve login UI with “nascar”  need scalable federation UI (e.g. via webfinger)
We’re committed to solving the outstanding RP problems ASAP
About to announce deprecation of ClientLogin  moving to OAuth for desktop / mobile
Forcing ourselves to get this right for web (e.g. Reader), desktop (e.g. Picasa), and mobile (e.g. gmail on android / blackberry / etc.)
Will share as many best practices / lessons / code / etc. as possible
Work needed to become a consumer RP is largely the same…

So, are we addressing “What an RP Needs”? (my presentation at the last OpenID Summit)

What an RP Needs
More high-quality OPs
Desktop / mobile / API best practices
Solution to the “Nascar problem”
Confidence that RP users are 1st class
Virtuous cycle

My conclusions
We’re not done yet, but we’re working on all the right things
We’re going to make a lot of progress in 2010
Let’s go!

Update on Google's OpenID Plans for 2010

by Joseph Smarr

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