[skomorokh]

I just skimmed the comments thread and have a vague idea of what OpenID is but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Sounds great, Yahoo/Google/Facebook take your pick with a button or if you're hacker/paranoid enough to have your own infrastructure the slightly complexity of using a URL?

Main complaint seems to be it's URL and not user@host? Couldn't one just add support for user@host into the next iteration of the standard? Maybe using something like DNS SRV records that seem to work well enough for XMPP?

Decentralisation is important and more cultural than technical. We need to keep working for it and it's not a short term goal--if it happens over decades so be it, but we shouldn't give up ground where we don't have to, especially with things trending against at the moment.

[drdaeman]

37signals do not care about decentralisation. It is as simple as that.