Well Hammer-Lahav calls it "the biggest professional disappointment of my career" on his blog[1] so I guess he's aware of that aspect (more[2]). The Mozilla Fo

Well Hammer-Lahav calls it "the biggest professional disappointment of my career" on his blog[1] so I guess he's aware of that aspect (more[2]). The Mozilla Foundation's Persona[3] looks to be further along in terms of code and in terms of other people using it[4], differences with OpenID are partially described here[5]. Regardless of quality I think someone flying solo is going to have a hard time getting ahead of Persona at this point. [1] http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/ http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell... [2] http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/on-leaving-oauth/ http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/on-leaving-oauth/ [3] http://identity.mozilla.com/post/32395255498/announcing-the-first-beta-release-of-persona http://identity.mozilla.com/post/32395255498/announcing-the-... [4] http://identity.mozilla.com/post/31008721633/application-and-platform-integration-of-persona http://identity.mozilla.com/post/31008721633/application-and... [5] http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7669886219/how-browserid-differs-from-openid http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7669886219/how-browserid-di...