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Secure RSS 
Kosso's looking for a way to do password protected RSS. I have to figure out how to do that too. NewsGator is supposed to have something. I keep missing the rep's call at work. Probably expensive?
LID does look pretty cool
I could see running it on a work server to get rid of one rusty old authentication system.
But for the "this is who I am" purpose, it seems to fall short of what's needed for the ownerID problem. If you'd rather not sign up for a hosted account, there's no middle ground between that and getting the API and installing it on your own server.
Current work on identity URLs
The YADIS group is a collective of blog software developers and folks working on open identity. The group met just last week. LID, mentioned in my post yesterday is a part of this group.
There seems to be a lot of work going on with URLs as identifiers, but single sign-on always is mentioned the the same breath. Including single sign-on makes this necessarily a lot more complicated, doesn't it?
No enlightened netizen could be against the idea of interoperability, but single sign-on will take a lot of coordination and committees and meetings and time. Which takes it out of the realm of the "just start doing it now " simplicity I was gushing about yesterday.
Like I said I'm only just now digging into this stuff and there are probably considerations I'm not seeing. But, from my limited perspective it kind of seems like some form of URL as identity could begin on its own.
Here's a list of supporters from the wiki:
| | * Brad Fitzpatrick, Six Apart, LiveJournal, OpenID |
| | * David Recordon, Six Apart, LiveJournal, OpenID |
| | * Johannes Ernst, NetMesh, LID |
| | * Owen Davis, identity commons, blog - yay for interop! |
| | * Gabe Wachob, XRI TC Chair - double yay for interop! |
| | * Victor Grey, 2idi Co-founder |
| | * Bill Barnhill, Communitivity Founder |
| | * Eugene Eric Kim, Blue Oxen Associates |
| | * Luke Razzell, weaverluke |
| | * Drummond Reed, XRI TC Co-Chair, i-name, blog |
| | * Kaliya Hamlin Identity Woman |
| | * Martin Atkins, Super Crazy Flying Kumquat Interactive |
| | * Hans Granqvist, VeriSign Research |
| | * B.K. DeLong, BrainStream |
| | * Daniel E. Renfer, Kronk Ltd. |
| | * Joaquin Miller, NetMesh, LID, joaquin.net, =joaquin |
| | * Chris Bradley, Trufina, i-name |
| | * Stephen Downes, downes.ca, National Research Council Canada |
| | * Josh Hoyt, JanRain, Inc. |
| | * Mary Hodder, napsterization |
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