Hi,
I tend to agree with My Mother... sorry,
your Mother, when s?he says that (s)he prefer OpenID to reflect 1:1 ownership of domains or accounts at dedicated providers.
So, I don't think that the time needed to turn PerlMonks into a OpenID provider would be more interesting used to make PerlMonks into a OpenID consumer, so that we could use our OpenID identifiers here.
But, again, maybe there are other things that could be done before that.