Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple

Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by cmiles74 on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:44AM (#20312862)

I suspect they didn't mention it because they see the lock-in to their product as a feature. Mentioning OpenID might give the impression that Apple would be interested in interoperability (to some degree).

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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by merb on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:15PM (#20315791)

they didn't mention it because if they did, they would need to be a member of the openid foundation and pay the 15k$.

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Re:Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding... by jogux on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:28AM (#20316894)

There's no requirement to be to a member of the OpenID Foundation to describe your implementation as OpenID; the trademark rules are here: https://openid.net/intellectual-property/trademark-license/

The main requirement therein I would say is that you can't use OpenID to describe an implementation unless it implements the mandatory-to-implement parts of the relevant protocol specification (and all the specifications are 100% free; e.g. https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html ). That's more about interoperability than anything else.

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