OpenID
To day it happened for me to visit http://wiki.oracle.com, there while signigup apart of UserName and Password saw an icon use OpenID,there I started debugging what this OpenID is.It redirected me to http://openid.net where I found some basic information on what excatly it is.As almost all sites require you to log-in,you need to create a saperate login where ever it is required.after some time you will forget the login details for some sites which you won’t use for a period of time.OpenID can be used as your identity on InterNet for accessing multiple sites.Just create an identity for your self from a list of service providers you find here .I get an identity from VerisignLabs which gave an url after registration.
Next question is How to Use this Identity, What ever the web site asks you to login just look for OpenID can be used to authenticate your self. If so just give your identification URL there,you will be redirected to you service provider. if you already having account with that website,yo will be authenticated and you can get in to the site. otherwise you will be asked to register your self by providing some basic info ,with that info that website will be registered with your service provider so that from next time you will be just giving your identity URL and get in to that site.One more advantage is you can manage all your sites you registered at one stop i.e., @your service provider(verisign labs in my case) for deleting that site from your list and all.
For me I would like to map this OpenID with Oracle Single Sign On where OpenID with SSO mail address,OID with service provider(VeriSign) ,like identity management we are managing our sites with our provider.Good news is that Google,Yahoo,IBM and AOL agreed to authenticate OpenID for some of their tasks(If i understand correctly..!!).Any way i like this feature…
