OpenID is a simple identification mechanism originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal and is now largely being developed by David Recordon of VeriSign, JanRain, and Dick Hardt of Sxip. It is a distributed, decentralized network, in which any user's online identity is given by URL (such as for a blog or a home page) or an XRI (such as an i-name), and can be verified by any server running the protocol.

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