number 1 > OpenID service providers go bust/offline and logins cant have multiple ID’s…

partly true but since I have multiple ID’s depending on which one I present will be from one or another e.g. my work ID is going to be very differant than my blogging one look at infocards and how people use that…
login providers e.g. ma.gnolia provide it when it makes sense to do so… its up to them and us as customers…

number 2 > mobile web does not like url’s so OpenID not good.

Simple NOT true have you actually used the mobile web its all painful and systems for ID will provide autofill and infocard like service

number 3 > pishing and url scammers

provide all the security you can in helper applications and URL ID such as images and feedback… its a problem but really people have enough problem with simply using the same password everywhere anyway so lets not go down the philosophical vs practice of security route… people make mistakes help them to recover and prevent as much as possible is the rule to use…

number 4 > people dont understand multiple ID’s

complete nonsense very young children understand that presenting a different appearance to different people is a technique to achieve things most people see this well in the Work vs Play id’s that people have.

number 5 > its less user friendly because multiple steps

maybe but I dont think so by providing consistency people become more trusting and understanding of the process and look for this method exactly because it is familiar look at many workflows and mostly we do it because it is familular e.g. keyboard layout (-;

number 6 > multiple logins and multiple ID’s are good

I AGREE but we can have different levels within those logins and I would like to simplify DATA INPUT e.g. in one ID I can share my full home address or just the city to a different service provider chouseing the level at which I share personal data gives me finer control of what I send and means i DO NOT have to type it in each time and make mistakes and give up and go home when I presented with yet another form to fill in ! as a workflow its much better to chouse the ID and then the amount of data I want to share rather than making mistakes and not using the service…

scary but my opinions

I think should give people the option of OpenID simply because it can be useful

regards

John Jones

http://john.jones.name

Seeing a train of positive comments without detraction makes you really wonder if people are paying attention, so I’m eager to consider his feedback and respond.

I’m still very much on the fence WRT to OpenID’s benefit to WordPress, however. Most sites don’t have registered comments. We’d be able to know that a comment comes from who it proports to come from, but that doesn’t seem to be a huge problem (and even if it is, it’d only be solved on sites with OpenID-enabled comments). I want it to be right for WordPress, but I’m just not convinced.