OpenID creator David Recordon

.net: What’s your vision of the open web?
DR: The web is evolving. It’s becoming more social. So the things that you really need to build at this point are pieces that allow people to interact between different services, that allow people to share things with people that they know, no matter whether they upload photos on Flickr or Picasa, without having to recreate accounts and re-enter the same data and do all those repetitive tasks. I look at these pieces – technologies or best practices – that need to exist to really make that happen.

.net: Which of the developments are you most excited about?
DR: It’s hard for me not to say OpenID: I’ve spent a few years working on it. But I’m also excited about the work that’s underway to create a hybrid of OpenID and OAuth [an open protocol to allow secure API authorisation in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications]. It’s looking at how OpenID and OAuth can be used together to allow users to log in to a website and at the same time grant that website access to some data from their OpenID provider. Google, for example, is using OAuth through their APIs and they have an OpenID provider. So if I wanted to prove that this was my Google account and also give that website access to my calendar, I’d first go to the OpenID flow and then to the OAuth flow. The hybrid would cut that down into one.

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