how different is OpenID from SXIP?

[John Merrells]

On 15-Mar-06, at 6:45 AM, Dan Connolly wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm writing from a W3C workshop on usable authentication.
>  http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/papers/

Hello Dan,

Also from the W3C meeting :)

> I've studied OpenID in some
> detail... played with the code and deployed it in a trial setting*.
>
> I hear about SXIP now and again. I found their web site, which has
> very high level stuff, as well as low-level protocol specs, and I  
> think
> some code. But it doesn't have the "here's how SXIP works..."
> blurb like the OpenID homepage has.


There's an Overview document here, which has only just been
published:

http://sxip.org/index.php/Documents

There's a more detailed Scenarios document in the works.
I'll post to this list once it is.

John


>
> I wonder if somebody could do me a favor: tell me to what extent
> SXIP is isomorphic to OpenID?
>
> I'm sorry for not writing sooner. I meant to do my own homework,
> but didn't manage.
>
>
> * I reviewed the OpenID spec a while ago, but didn't send
> my comments here because I wasn't sure I had time for
> follow-up discussion. My notes are at:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2005Jul/0002.html
>
> -- 
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
>
>