Beta testing: Launchpad is now an OpenID provider

[( ``-_-´´ ) -- Fernando]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008 17:05:31 Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This month I'd like your help in testing Launchpad's new OpenID feature.
> 
> OpenID is an open standard that lets you use one username and password
> to access many different websites. You can use your Launchpad account
> to log into websites that work with OpenID, including:
> 
>  * Blogger - to post blog comments
>  * Zoomr - photo sharing
>  * LiveJournal
>  * ma.gnolia.com - social bookmarking.
> 
> The OpenID Directory - http://openiddirectory.com/ - has links to more
> sites.
> 
> As Launchpad's OpenID support is still in beta, you may come across
> bugs. If so, please report them here, tag them with "openid" and assign
> them to me (flacoste):
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug
> 
> You can also find a list of known bugs here:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=openid
> 
> If you have any questions or feedback about this beta, please email me
> directly. You can also take a look at our user guide, which is on this
> page:
> 
> https://help.launchpad.net/OpenID
> 
> Before I go, Barry Warsaw - who ran last month's mailing list beta 
> test - asked me to thank everyone who took part. As you've probably
> already seen, mailing lists are now available to all teams in Launchpad!
> 
> I look forward to hearing your experiences of Launchpad's OpenID feature.
> 

Maybe I'm too picky, but why mascared URI? I would like to have an option to use a well know URI to use on sites.
Can anybody explain to me, why this reached consence?

I have no problem on having a public OpenID URl. Mine is http://id.BUGabundo.net. What's the danger in that?

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ps. My emails tend to sound authority and aggressive. I'm sorry in advance. I'll try to be more assertive as time goes by...
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