It was a long time ago when there was a discussion in the wp-hackers list about intergrate OpenID into wordpress. There was suggestion to put it into wordpress core. But there seems to be a final decision from ticket #3616 that it won’t get into core.

That, i think, is partly because of the excellent plugin wp-openid.

Closing as WONTFIX for now. Multiple plugins exist for this functionality. You have also combined the two issues of consuming and serving.

I was waiting for the openid support in wp core until I saw this ticket today. So I installed WP-OpenID right away. It’s a good plugin, though no many option. Support OpenID in commenting is what I wanted for a long time, but I really want to turn off the openid login support – that adds an user in my blog!

Anyway, friends, you can use your openid url to comment on my articles now.
Enjoy!