5 December, 2007 - 3:10pm

The internet community got an early Christmas present this morning, after more than 18 months of work the OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0 were released today as final specifications (”OpenID 2.0") at the Internet Identity Workshop. Kudos to David Recordon, Josh Hoyt, and Sxip's Dick Hardt (three of the authors and editors)! There are already several open source libraries shipping these specifications with product support including Drupal and Google’s Blogger (via Sxip’s library). Multiple OpenID Providers including Sxipper also already have support for both of these specifications. Additional security extensions for phishing-resistant authentication are also available with PAPE. The finalization of the specs brings us one step closer to our Identity 2.0 vision of enabling individuals to create and manage their online digital identities. Find out more on OpenID.net.