A dark day for MS .NET Passport service

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Today I received a notification from eBay that they will be finally removing support for .NET Passport on January 24, 2004. One big non-MS customer leaves the field... how many more will follow now?

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  • How many were actually still using it? We've developed 2 non-microsoft sites (and a couple of Micorsoft ones) using Passport, the non-Microsoft ones stopped using it last year citing security / privacy concerns. Plus it's REALLY expensive for very little benefit...

  • Well, the benefit may be null for the company implementing it, but it's certainly a good thing for your users.

    I used to signup in eBay with Passport, so I know I'll miss it...

  • Yeah, I think that MS Passport is a great idea from the user point of view, but it suffers a lot from lack of industry adoption. What a pity :(

  • MS should release start selling passport as a standalone product instead of using the central passport server. This way companies can use Passport to authenticate (sso) users in their intranet without having to share information with the external world.

  • Not that dark....



    like some of the posts here, it was a good idea.



    but it was never "adopted" by the masses.



    so I would even bet MS stops using it after a while.



    I have seen some stuff about ADAM and some other work MS is doing around the signle signon ideas that might go if microsoft gets them adopted.



    hate to say it but let Linux have a "Free" version with source.



    just write the linux version in C# for Mono.



    then I bet you get some real interest.

  • Yup... that's the way it should have always been. With an option to syncronize the intranet passport server with MS one if required (and paid ;))

  • Daniel,

    Passport works great. The problem is that MS took the wrong marketing tactic with is, and the MS-bashers decided to throw it back in their face.



    It's that simple. If they had approached it with a more open, industry-inclusive posture, it might (or something similar) have gotten full industry support.



    A lesson to be learned. Tennebaum said "The great thing about standards is you get to choose a new one each year".

  • If you can, it's worth checking out what's available with Passport 3.0 - web service based etc...I'd guess that the new versions whilst being MS only for now, represent a future direction for MS in this space.

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