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[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

James,

Thanks for the info.

Looking at MediaUK, it seems like MicroID is a great addition.  Congrats 
for implementing, I'll post it to the blog.

Best,
Fred



On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, James Cridland wrote:

> As currently, it's just as simple as... if you're registered on Media UK
> (we're a bit fierce about registration, it's not the easiest thing in the
> world to get onto), then your profile page now has the correct microid held
> within it, for verification in services like claimid.com
>
> We're quite fierce about proving you are who you say you are; we only allow
> registrations from private email services (like your employer's), and not
> from things like Gmail and Hotmail. If you're on Media UK as "John Doe",
> then we've done our best to check that you really *are* John Doe, not just
> someone pretending to be John Doe. This makes our microid hopefully quite
> useful.
>
> For the above reason, we don't accept OpenID, and we're unlikely to for the
> forseeable future.

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