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Rapleaf should support OpenIDs’

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Our next project will support OpenID which, as I mentioned before, rocks!

There are a couple of flaws with it though. First, it’s only an identity service so there is no way to know if the person is trustworthy. All you know is that they own the ID. Second, it’s missing an email address, so if you want to contact that person you can’t (i think).

Well there is one service out there that offers an open reputation platform for email called rapleaf. We use them on junkdepot and it works wonderfly!

I think it would be amazing if rapleaf offered support for open id’s that way you could tie a reputation to the identity and even an email (via the rapleaf api).

All they would need to do is extend their api to support lookups by openid and allow users to claim an openid on their rapleaf profile.

I sent them an email asking if they plan to do it. I’ll let you know what they say… here’s hoping!