OpenID 2.0 (aka Draft 12) has been announced!

| By Kevin Fox | August 28th, 2007 | Comments [10]

JanRain’s own Josh Hoyt announced to the OpenID mailing list draft 12 of the OpenID Authentication 2.0 specification.

“It’s been a long time since the previous draft, and it’s past time that we get the work that has been done out, so that users and developers can benefit from OpenID 2.0.

In the next month, we’d like to see implementers update their libraries or applications to be draft 12 compliant and perform
interoperability testing. Once this period is over (October 1st), we should call the specification final, pending final IPR clearance from contributors. If we have IPR clearance by that point, we can call the spec final on October 1st.

In the past, we’ve had timelines proposed and slipped. I don’t think there’s any reason for that to happen in this case, and I hope that the community will hold the editors accountable.

Let’s get this done!”

Major changes to the OpenID authentication specification, draft 11 to draft 12:

* Specify handling of URL fragments

* Realm verification using XRDS discovery

* Don’t allow unencrypted secret exchange unless operating with transport layer encryption

If you have any questions or comments feel free to post to the mailing list or check out the OpenID channel on Pibb!

10 Responses to “OpenID 2.0 (aka Draft 12) has been announced!”

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  5. http://dreadknight.myopenid.com/ Says:
    September 11, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Very nice! Thanks to the Wablet site i found this.

    I was thinking for quite some time about something like OpenID in order to have an online identity and your “online user account” thing. This is great! JanRain has nice services, keep it up!

  6. http://dreadknight.myopenid.com/ Says:
    September 11, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    JanRain has great services!
    Thanks to Wablet I’ve found this site… i was looking for something like OpenID (an universal online idendity for the web). Let’s promote this :)

    Keep it up!

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  9. http://ravikeerthi.myopenid.com/ Says:
    October 9, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    Are there any Java libraries supporing this?

  10. Kevin Fox Says:
    October 10, 2007 at 10:11 am

    There are… the docs, wiki and source are available on the project home page at http://code.google.com/p/openid4java The library and API can be found at http://code.sxip.com

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