Para entender el presente de OpenID les recomiendo leer este post de 37 Signals uno de los primeros en saltar a brindar apoyo a lo que parecía ser una solución de identificación unificada frente a la continua aparición de nuevos servicios online…
it just made things harder. Especially when people were having problems with the often flaky OpenID providers and couldn’t log into their account. OpenID has been a burden on support since the day it was launched.