B. Mann Consulting

Scott Kveton announced the OpenID Code Bounty at OSCON today:

Integrate OpenID into your open source project and we’ll give $5,000 to your project.

We’ve seen OpenID really start to gain some momentum over the past couple of months and this Bounty program is really the exclamation point on that. There is a great list of sponsors for the program that includes people, organizations and businesses focused on building a simple, light-weight and decentralized user-centric identity platform around OpenID. Working with all of these people over the last couple of weeks has proven to me that convergence is really happening around OpenID.

I wasn't really a fan of the "original" OpenID spec. That is, it worked great, but only solved single sign-on. Then the Simple Registration Protocol, or SRP, got kludged in. This supports only 9 -- and exactly 9 -- attributes, and is not extensible. So, colour me firmly in the SXIP camp at this point.