Well, not that I know much about these things, but I'm a little wary of having MS overseeing the only authentication system. I don't mind having competing approaches.

Decius wrote:
] ] TypeKey helps ensure that people who comment on a site
] ] have a verified identity, keeping conversations on track
] ] and helping to prevent abusive or offensive content
] ] (comment spam) from being posted.
]
] Moveable Type's solution to comment spam was to build their
] own version of Microsoft Passport.
]
] 1. One wonders why they didn't just use Microsoft Passport.
]
] 2. I predict that because most net users have the IQ of a rock
] they won't understand that this is exactly the same as
] Microsoft Passport. Furthermore, they will think its a "great
] idea" and wonder why no one did it before. They won't be at
] all concerned about the privacy of their data because its not
] the architecture of the system that is important but who made
] it that matters.
]
] 3. TypeKey currently doesn't share information about how to
] interoperate with their system. They hint that people will
] have to pay them money in order to interoperate. Depending on
] the costs associated with that they may or may not expand this
] little service outside of the world of their own software.
] They are unlikely to get this right.
]
] 4. It will be interesting to see how their system actually
] works. If they developed a good enough protocol an open source
] typekey system would enable people to run their own identity
] servers that are compatible with moveable type. Its easy to
] mis-design a system like this so that it doesn't really work
] well for such a purpose.
]
] 5. There is a remote possibility that if the protocol is
] right, the money is right, and MT's perception in the user
] community is right that this could become the way that
] everyone shares authentication information on the internet.
] Its unlikely, and it won't happen in way that MT likes
] (they'll loose control). But its possible.

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