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OK, I'll bite. What was OpenID intended for?
– Nathan Tuggy
Commented May 23, 2018 at 19:44
»Homepage ownership verification protocol«. - And yes, sure, might be a petty technicality. But it's the main usability blunder and why it failed with the average user bourgeois. ;)
– mario
Commented May 23, 2018 at 20:14
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I can't find that phrase anywhere on the web. And OpenID.net's about page has, as its first sentence, "OpenID allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords."
– Nathan Tuggy
Commented May 23, 2018 at 20:44
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Yep, it has been repurposed/advertised as SSO service later on. On the original mailing list lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2005-June/subject.html it was mostly still "OpenID asserts ownership of URLs". Reusable logons was what people wanted it for, but not strictly designed towards.
– mario
Commented May 23, 2018 at 21:01

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