Wikimedia (Wikipedia) single sign-on

[Jean-Luc Delatre]

Rob Lanphier wrote:

>Before posting to that wikitech-l, though, please read through the
>meeting notes from the last meeting:
>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research_Network/Meetings/2005-06-18#Single_login
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Quoting from this URL

"The discussed model is different from Brion's original proposal insofar 
as local user accounts will stop working after the migration date."

That may be a single signon with respect to different consumers but this 
is not a distributed system anymore!
Enforcing a single namespace for user names (proper) makes things easier 
for implementors but completely defeats the goals of OpenID (as far as I 
understand them!)

Too bad...

JLD