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Everyone want to be your openid provider suddenly.

The truth is, you only need one.

Sure, you probably want to have a dozen or so. But the real point of open id is use an open identity to get into website.

No more remembering a username and password for every single one of the thousands of websites you log into. Likewise, just disable a compromised open identity at one place, the provider.

i prefer to host it myself and keep control of my own identity.

What we need is for sites to accept openid for authentication and identification... We don't need more providers. We need sites (like facebook.com and google.com and hotmail.com and telecom.co.nz and ird.govt.nz and flickr.com) to accept our openid to identify who we are and let us log in, instead of that archaic and time consuming username+password remembering method.

Once open id takes over the world (just like lisp already did) then you'll just whack your openid into login boxes, and watch the magic system authenticate you faster than you can blink. No longer will you have to remember your username or your password. No long will you have to request "forgot password" on that website you visit twice a year and no longer remember your details on.

Please to be accepting openid!! not providing.

KTHNXBYTE.