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The Hybrid Protocol is a result of the ongoing effort by the OpenID and OAuth communities to make these protocols more useful for users and websites. Google is working together with the OpenID community to standardize the new protocol as a formal OpenID extension.

OAuth is poised to be one of most important new standards in 2008. A simple standardization of delegated token auth, OAuth makes it straightforward to offer and consume APIs for a class of data under represented in the current set of API offerings—data

"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should exist outside of any proprietary tool or vendor. We need a DNS for Identity. A distributed File System for data. This page will list the standards and contributors who are making it happen."