<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> (And JOSM as well - unsure how this, being a non-web appilcation, could be integrated?)
</blockquote><div><br><a href="http://blog.wachob.com/2007/03/openid_for_desk.html">http://blog.wachob.com/2007/03/openid_for_desk.html</a><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Some people spoke of us being an OpenID provider because they<br>disliked the idea of "outsourcing" the ID; their thought was: let our<br>central server be an OpenID provider, then all other services can<br>"share" the server's user base.
</blockquote><div><br>But if you do allow third party openid's then there may be no specific benefit... I have had the same temptation for my own projects; being able to _offer_ openid seems to give both the openid benefit and the closed id benefit.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am unfamiliar with OpenID; if you don't have your own provider, are<br>there services out there that can be used (and are trustworthy, don't
<br>spam you, don't display tons of blinking ads and don't charge you<br>money)?</blockquote><div><br></div></div>I've been using <a href="http://myopenid.com">myopenid.com</a> which seems good.<br><br> - a<br>
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