This development snapshot allows you:

• to build websites that accept LID, OpenID and Yadis URLs as a form of identification.
• to host your own LID, OpenID and Yadis URLs. This most recent version is in PHP.

It is licensed both as open-source and as commercial software, depending on your preferences.

There are also new web-based administration tools that allow you to create accounts for users, categorize them into groups, serve different information based on the group that a user belongs to etc.

For example, you could say "I only want people who have signed an NDA have access to the document at URL http://example.com/secret-document.doc". If so, you can create a group called nda and assign those people (actually, their identity URLs) to it who have signed an NDA.

There's a template called FirstSSO that makes it real easy to create an access-protected website. Because it is a template, you can decide which features should be included in your website. In my opinion, one of its coolest feature is the way it handless access control:

In the NDA example above, you simply would upload the document to the server with name secret-document%nda.doc, and it is automatically only accessible to people in the group nda. Even a non-technical document author / website owner can do that!

Download from the NetMesh Developer's Site and enjoy. Note that this is a development snapshot, and so expect bugs. Feedback appreciated.