[Noisebridge-discuss] [POTENTIAL DRAMA] What do people think about GW?

[Kate McKinley]

Google is an OpenID provider.

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html

I would assume they would support third-party OpenID when Wave is fully baked.

--Kate

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Christopher Nielsen
<m4dh4tt3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't know how it actually works with wave, but taking an idea from
> Kerberos and using cross-realm trust and authentication might be a
> good direction. For those that don't know, cross-realm trust and
> authentication permits a realm to manage it's own users but recognizes
> other users from a trusted realm. The realms still do authentication
> of their own users, but there is a trust relationship between the two
> realms. Reading that back, it doesn't look very clear, but I hope it
> helps.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 15:50, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
>> Glen Jarvis wrote:
>>>     I expect it centralizes its information,
>>>     which would be problematic for many if it catches on, but possibly no
>>>     more so than IM systems *IF* Google lets other people implement Wave
>>>     servers.  I haven't done this research at all though.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, Google has said this is open source and you can set up your own
>>> servers. I think they want to make this catch on to replace email across
>>> the board so everyone has their very own.
>>>
>>> Like many things right now, it's in a very *very* early stage -- so
>>> there's a lot still being worked out, planned, updated, etc.
>>
>> Do any of you who pointed this out know what their idea is for the
>> pick-a-server problem?  By which I mean, I might want to wave with not
>> only the people in my company, but people in other companies, and other
>> social groups, all of whom might have their own servers set up.  REALLY
>> DO NOT WANT to have accounts on all of those.  I can imagine leaving it
>> to the client and requiring any Wave to pick a server to play on (like
>> MMORGs) or implementing some kind of single signon system.  There are
>> probably other options too, anyone know?
>>
>> Rachel
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