It really is high time for some open standard in online authorization. How many accounts does everybody have nowadays? Another account name, another stored password for every single website (if it’s another one anyway. Most of us will use their one and only password on every second site. That’s not what one calls security).

After those commercial tries like Microsoft’s Passwort, which are doomed to failure because they are not open (who wants to depend on a big company for authorization…), there is OpenId now. With financial backing of companies (get your bounty here), but still a completely open development model here.

That’s really cool and could change how we surf and use the web everyday. Crossing the fingers that it will succeed (and I can finally forget all my 57 account names and passwords). Also PmWiki will join the game soon hopefully.