[OpenID board] Technical Committee Chairs

Nat Sakimura sakimura at gmail.com
Thu May 20 18:35:08 UTC 2010


Hi Dewitt,

Since I am not a marketing type, I may not have been communicating it properly.
I got a lot of positive criticism around it during IIW X, but the OIDF
chartered WG,
"Artifact Binding" Working Group is producing OAuth2.0-- binding of
OpenID Assertions.

The spec has gone through 6 draft specs, and you can find it here:

https://openid4.us/specs/ab/  ("OpenID for us", not ver. 4 :-)

>From what I see, it is kind of close to what proposed OpenID Connect would do.
It lacks some features like webfinger support (which I expected v.Next
Discovery
WG would sort out), cookie generation, etc., but they can also be
added in, I suppose.
It is kind of unfortunate that though I like those features of the
connect proposal,
I cannot incorporate them because I have read them and these are not
contributed to OIDF yet.

Artifact Binding does other things that connect proposal does not: it
supports mobile handsets as well as higher level of assurance.David
might be thinking that these are
redundant features, but they are very useful in commerce etc. setting
and all these public key crypto (actually, any crypto for that matter)
things are optional.

I am planning to freeze the draft latest by the end of May.

For expediting the process of getting "connect" like features out,
it might be better to utilize this WG as a conduit instead,
and still we can message the market that we are producing a
single version of the OpenID 3.

Just my 2c.

=nat

P.S. I plan to contribute openid4.us to OIDF. I just needed it to get
SSL cert to demonstrate Artifact Binding at IIW. What would be the process?

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:45 AM, DeWitt Clinton <dewitt at google.com> wrote:
> From where I'm sitting, I see them as mutually compatible and parallel
> goals, but not now the same technology, and that's okay.
> Connect being "build on what the web is already doing and very much
> wants/needs today", and v.Next being "what could be done given the luxury of
> time to explore."
> The OIDF could make an effort to wait for the latter to build the former,
> but honestly, the former isn't going to wait for the OIDF.  Which is why I
> advocate a parallel approach if we hope to see the OIDF involved (and I do).
>
> Please correct my understanding of the situation if I got the above wrong,
> as I'm only following the discussions from the edges and I'm (blissfully)
> out of the loop.
> -DeWitt
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Brian Kissel <bkissel at janrain.com> wrote:
>>
>> +1 to Nat's suggestion.  While we know that both David and Joseph are very
>> well qualified to lead this committee, if we do have differing
>> perspectives on the future direction of the next iterations of OpenID, it
>> would be good to have representatives from both perspectives involved in
>> leading the process.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net
>> [mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Nat Sakimura
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:09 AM
>> To: openid-board at lists.openid.net
>> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Technical Committee Chairs
>>
>> I have a little concern here.  It might be a healthy thing to have
>> discussions, but in the end, I really want v.Next and Connect camp to
>> unite. In that respect, both chair and co-chair coming from Connect
>> camp bothers me.
>>
>> You say that Joseph was close to be a co-chair, but the situation
>> surrounding it has changed since then. At the time, there was only
>> v.Next. Now, it looks like there are v.Next and Connect camp.
>>
>> Do not you think it is better to first ask v.Next camp people to step up?
>>
>> Would not somebody form v.Next camp step up?
>>
>> =nat
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The committee elects its own chairs. A few months ago we elected Dick as
>> > chair and me as co-chair. Joseph was really close to being co-chair.
>> >
>> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> So, what is the process that chooses committee chairs?
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:01 PM, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Today the Board passed a resolution directing the Executive Director,
>> >> > Chair,
>> >> > Technical Committee, and outside council to explore a contracting
>> >> > relationship with Dick Hardt to move the v.Next work forward. Dick
>> >> > brought
>> >> > up how there could be a conflict during this process given that he is
>> >> > the
>> >> > chair of the Technical Committee. So for the time being I'll take on
>> the
>> >> > chair role with Joseph Smarr (who wasn't at the meeting but I spoke
>> to a
>> >> > few
>> >> > hours ago) taking on the co-chair role.
>> >> > Technical Committee, expect a followup email around starting to pull
>> >> > together a set of deliverables and timeline over the next week. The
>> >> > goal, as
>> >> > I understand it, is to either have a contract in place or a
>> >> > determination
>> >> > that it is unfeasible by the end of the this month.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > --David
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