Our identities online are becoming ever more valuable to the companies that we entrust them to. What happens though when a company just ups and closes shop (Pownce, for example) and deletes your stuff? Sure, the individual files you'll have on your computer anyway, you won't have lost anything as far as bits and bytes are concerned--but what about friendships you've built up with people who you only know through the service. Your data should be portable so that you can take it to any service and not lose those relationships that you've built up in one walled-garden when it collapses, or you decide to move on. OpenID tries to solve this brand-centric problem by placing you at the centre of your data and allowing the sites you trust access through a single sign-on. OSnews is contemplating implementing OpenID and would like your feedback, but there are a few questions to consider--please read on for details
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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes, don’t forget to allow for multiple OpenID accounts per user, nothing worse than having a single OpenID attached with that provider going bust
4. Possibly, it cannot hurt but it should come after you can ingest our external OpenIDs. id.osnews.com/kroc is rather long though, maybe osnews.com/~kroc ?
5. Incredibly
6. Everything? Purge it. Option to remove email address if we attach an OpenID. Option to hide all information from public. etc
(account renaming (once, maybe?) would be handy too, as long as you keep old accounts reserved and redirected to new)