On 2/20/07, anders conbere <aconbere at gmail.com> wrote: > It derives it's meaning and value from the use of the global > DNS system, regardless if you're actually looking to direct > traffic to your openID or not, it's the nature of it being an > anchor that gives it power. > Check out the 2.0 spec. There are some changes: http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0-11.html It introduces XRI into the mix (think brand new, non-DNS naming system) Wouldn't expect it to work so well in an <a> I take an "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" approach to new internet-scale naming systems, and remain something of a skeptic. Certainly 2.0 is no longer paving the cow paths. YMMV, etc. -cks -- Christopher St. John http://artofsystems.blogspot.com