Re: [webfinger] Vision for Webfinger - what are we doing?

[Eric Mill <[e-mail]>]

This is all helpful to hear, and I hope these all come to fruition,
especially OpenID Connect. I'll take a stab at setting up my own OpenID
Connect service on my domain and see how it feels.

I guess it's inevitable that we have to hope the big companies make a
meaningful gesture, too. Giving Google's outdated Webfinger
endpoint<https://gmail.com/.well-known/host-meta> for
Gmail a big update would be a great start.

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Paul E. Jones <[e-mail]>wrote:

>  Eric,
>
> OpenID is not entirely dead, yet.  I still run my own OpenID OP server and
> use it to log into some sites.  I still allow OpenID logins on
> forums.packetizer.com, too.  It's still in use, but the large sites just
> didn't have enough users using it, so they axed it.  On its heels, though,
> is now OpenID Connect and it will use WebFinger for discovery.  so, sure...
> push it :-)
>
> Personally, I can think of a lot of good uses for WebFinger:
> * When I log onto a web site, I want the site to grab my name an picture
> automatically.
> * If I want somebody to send me bitcoins, I'd much rather give them my
> email address (and I do have that in my WF account)
> * My contact info is published via WebFinger, so I don't have to give
> people a lot of info on a business card
> * WebFinger will hopefully be used as the starting point for
> auto-provisioning of email clients or other devices and applications where
> one has to enter server and port information
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 10/14/2013 11:21 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
>  I was at a hackathon <http://fedscoop.com/code-dc-calls-furloughed-feds/> today,
> and spent the day working on Webfinger libraries for Sinatra<https://github.com/konklone/sinatra-webfinger>and
> Jekyll <https://github.com/konklone/jekyll-webfinger>. It was really
> productive, but -- at the end of the day, a reporter was there asking
> everybody questions about their projects.
>
>  When he asked what Webfinger was for, I realized that the original
> easy-to-communicate killer app for Webfinger, easing universal login
> through OpenID, was<http://productblogarchive.37signals.com/products/2011/01/well-be-retiring-our-support-of-openid-on-may-1.html>
> dead <https://www.myopenid.com/>. The only thing I could think to say was
> "Remember OpenID? Before it died? Well, this is a piece of the puzzle to
> putting something like that back together again."
>
>  That didn't feel like a very impressive answer. So, now that OpenID is
> dead, what's the one line explanation for why Webfinger is important?
> What's the path forward to making Webfinger something people are
> incentivized to support?
>
>  Should we be pushing really hard to resuscitate OpenID via OpenID
> Connect? Do we just need to wait for internal lobbying inside of
> Google/Microsoft/Twitter/etc to pay off in some announcement? I know
> Webfinger supports more than email lookup -- is there some particular
> killer app people were envisioning when they lobbied for that feature?
>
>  I'm so happy there's finally an RFC, after so many years. I recognize
> how much work was put in to make that happen, and this shouldn't be taken
> as a criticism of anyone. I just want to know what others see for the
> future of Webfinger, and what I should do next.
>
>  -- Eric
>
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