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by jmathai 5445 days ago
I'm really excited about BrowserID. I think for the end user it makes more sense than OpenId which was doomed from the start because it was too difficult to understand what it was.

If only people owned their email addresses then this would be a truly decentralized (eventually) and portable identity system. I do think emails are the best global handle for users that we have currently - we should treat it as such.
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sambeau 5445 days ago
I am too. My only concern is that it is still effectively a demo. Do we have any real commitment from Mozilla to keep it around?
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jmathai 5443 days ago
I actually talked to Lloyd Hilaiel from Mozilla who worked on BrowserID and it's currently in alpha and they hope to move it to beta in a couple months. At that point they'd be committing to keeping it around.

The web needs this to be widely adopted. They've got some unique challenges to make it easy to integrate and easy to understand but I think they're on the right track.

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