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by papachito 5855 days ago
Even Googlers agree with Eran, xauth is just a temporary solution, the real solution should go into the browser, maybe with a API that is xauth compatible. Mozilla is already working on those ideas.

edit, from another googler: http://www.google.com/buzz/dclinton/RcW6X3EjKj1/John-Panzers...

> John Panzer's take on the XAuth project is pretty much spot-on. It's not that XAuth is what anyone wants for the ultimate answer in this space. > Rather, XAuth is a short-term way of pushing for any momentum in this direction.

> There are a number of companies leading it, btw:

> MySpace: http://xauthdemo.myspace.com/

> Microsoft: http://xauthdemo.mslivelabs.com/

> Yahoo: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/04/xauth_oauth...

> Etc., etc. (Eran suggested this was Google-led, which didn't quite strike me as accurate, given that Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace, etc., were all as involved as Google was.)

> For more background on XAuth, I did a round-up of the various announcements and responses during the XAuth launch:: http://www.google.com/buzz/dclinton/CYgLcs24yqP/