Posted by moshe weitzman on July 19, 2007 at 6:47pm
James Walker has pushed an OpenID client into core for D6. I moved all distributed auth to drupal.module from user.module. it should be pretty easy to eject it completely when someone gets the urge.
Any reason to keep this group around? Should we rename to OpenID?
And of course, we still need that OpenID server module for D6 :)

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No, this is still the right group
OpenID is an implementation of distributed authentication. As is SAML, as are many other different protocols and approaches.
So, the group should stay. It's for all forms of identity and distributed user management.