OpenID looks very promising and maybe WordPerss can play a part in it if the work is put into it.
It’s certainly something that would benefit WPMU. A community of users could post comments on each other’s blogs and bias any moderation rules in favour of the posted data getting through.
It doesn’t address trust however, but in a blogging community that can be solved in other ways (ie. when you register, the user has to click a url in an email.)
Interesting times ahead.
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Perhaps it could work in a group of bloggers sharing a trust pool. I’m sure I’ve seen some RDF papers about this on the w3 site. Still, very interesting stuff.
[…] I caught a link in the WordPress Dashboard to a developers blog who was commenting on “OpenID: An actually distributed identity system“. OpenID says that they are “a decentralized identity system, but one that’s actually decentralized and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business.” Drupal already does something like this if the drupal people allow it. Our Mission site is a Drupal site that allows decentralized login. If you sign up for an account there, then go to another drupal site (like drupal.org) and enter your username as username@missions.ritchietribe.net and the password you signed up with, you will be able to log into the account and be able to act as a user without going through the registration hassle again. […]
If we could have openID or join the Drupal crew that would be great. I don’t know php well enough to try to write it.