[wp-hackers] Should OpenID be in WP core?

[Sam Angove]

On 3/11/07, Dan Coulter <dan at dancoulter.com> wrote:
>
> Pretty much everyone already has an identity now, what with AOL being a
> provider now (all you need is an AIM account).  Yahoo accounts can be used
> with http://idproxy.net.  Soon, Microsoft is going to start providing them
> for anyone with a PC.  I don't mind WP being an identity provider, but the
> client is what's really interesting for me.

Moreover, no-one needs to run their own identity provider to turn a
blog into an OpenID. That's what delegation is for.