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Simon Willison who used to work at Yahoo! has done a lot of work educating the industry and interested parties about OpenID at his blog. Simon has now gone a step further and made it easier for non-technical people to participate and easily creat their own OpenIDs with IDproxy.net.

Over the rest of the post, I thought I would take you step-by-step through how this works:

available to everyone who has a WordPress.com blog. This means you can sign in to a growing number of sites using your existing WordPress.com account.

You can learn more about this feature in our OpenID FAQ. Your OpenID is simply the URL of your blog;

OpenID Foundation/Board

The OpenID Foundation is currently being run by an initial board of seven members selected from the OpenID Community to get the foundation underway. These members are:

• David Recordon (Verisign)
  
• Artur Bergman (Six Apart)
  
• Johannes Ernst (NetMesh)
  
• Martin Atkins (independent)
  
• Scott Kveton (JanRain)
  
• Dick Hardt (Sxip)
  
• Drummond Reed (Cordance)
  

Members of the community can monitor board discussions and communicate collectively with the board on the board mailing list.

Meetings

The board is currently holding regular meetings every Thursday.

Meeting Minutes

The minutes of each meeting are published at least seven days after the meeting so that the minutes can be approved in the following meeting.

• 25th Jan 2007
  
• 1st Feb 2007
  
• 5th Feb 2007
  
• 22nd Feb 2007
  
• 8th Mar 2007
  
• 15th Mar 2007

OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric
digital identity.

OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves
on the Internet the same way websites do-with a URI
(also called a URL or web address). Since URIs are at the very core of
Web architecture, they provide a solid foundation for user-centric
identity.

The first piece of the OpenID framework is authentication
-- how you prove ownership of a URI. Today, websites require usernames
and passwords to login, which means that many people use the same
password everywhere. With OpenID Authentication (see specs), your
username is your URI, and your password (or other credentials) stays
safely stored on your OpenID Provider (which you can run yourself, or
use a third-party identity provider).

This white paper compares SAML, CardSpace, OpenID and ID-WSF. It also illustrates how these mechanisms can be used together.

OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on system. Using OpenID-enabled sites, web users do not need to remember traditional authentication tokens such as username and password. Instead, they only need to be previously registered on a website with an OpenID "identity provider", sometimes called an i-broker. Since OpenID is decentralized, any website can employ OpenID software as a way for users to sign in; OpenID solves the problem without relying on any centralized website to confirm digital identity.

OpenID is increasingly gaining adoption amongst large sites, with organizations like AOL acting as a provider. In addition, integrated OpenID support has been made a high priority in Firefox 3^[1] and Microsoft is working on implementing OpenID 2.0 in Windows Vista.^[2]