@larry thanks for the shoutout.
@codinghorror OneName is a decentralized identity system. One of the possible applications of this is a decentralized auth service.
The benefits of this are well known - users have true control over their data, users are not tied down to any one application/service/company for auth, apps can share data and build off of each other, etc.
We’re currently working implementing OAuth 2 and when that’s ready, we’ll have an open auth service, which in my view fits well with the goals of Discourse.