[OpenID board] OpenID WG Process and requirement to host documents under "openid.net"

Eric Sachs esachs at google.com
Thu Jul 26 15:07:41 UTC 2012


>> For Account chooser, ac.openid.net would be perfectly fine to me,
but you may want to ask the WG people as well for a better idea.

Okay, I'll send a quick note

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> I choose hg because bitbucket is actually an implementation of
> Mercurial source control system.
> Hg is Mercury, and is the main command in Mercurial.
>
> For Account chooser, ac.openid.net would be perfectly fine to me, but
> you may want to ask the WG people as well for a better idea.
>
> Best,
>
> Nat
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com> wrote:
> >>> To meet the above requirement, we are aliasing the bitbucket site
> >>> (bitbucket.org/openid/connect) to hg.openid.net by CNAME, so that
> everything
> >>> can be accessed in openid.net domain.
> >
> > That is a neat trick.  I did find this article describing a way to do
> that
> > with the tool we are using as well.  What led you to choose the "hq"
> CNAME?
> > Do you have a suggestion of a CNAME for the AC working group?  Or should
> we
> > start a thread on the AC working group to get suggestions?
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Eric and Greg,
> >>
> >> In the board meeting, the question about the location of the WG
> procedural
> >> rule on the web site requirement was asked.
> >> Here is the quotation from the OpenID Process Document ver. 1.5 December
> >> 2009.
> >>
> >> 4.8 Visibility.  All WG documents will be located on the WG webpage
> >> (“Webpage”), which will be
> >> located at a URL within openid.net, and all work (administrative and
> >> technical) of a WG will be conducted via
> >> the applicable Specification Mailing Lists or at meetings that may be
> >> called from time to time.  The minutes
> >> of each meeting and a record of  all decisions will be published to the
> >> Webpage and the applicable
> >> Specification Mailing List.  All WG email lists will be archived, and
> all
> >> WG email archives will be publicly
> >> visible.  The Editor(s) should keep the following current on the
> Webpage:
> >> (a) WG name and Charter;
> >> (b) any standing rules and other adopted procedures;
> >> (c) any applicable meeting schedule and attendance method(s);
> >> (d) anticipated deliverables and delivery dates;
> >> (e) list of WG Contributors;
> >> (f) the names and email addresses of Editors and any other functionaries
> >> (e.g., secretary);
> >> (g) links to draft and completed WG documents (including the latest WG
> >> Specifications); and
> >> (h) current announcements (including WG formation, any revisions to the
> >> Charter, and any call
> >> to approve a draft as an Implementers Draft or a Final Specification and
> >> applicable deadlines).
> >>
> >> Like Account Chooser WG, AB/Connect WG is using an external site to
> manage
> >> the working group works.
> >> In our case, it is bitbucket.org. (It is very handy as it has issues
> >> tracking with OpenID login.)
> >> To meet the above requirement, we are aliasing the bitbucket site
> >> (bitbucket.org/openid/connect) to
> >> hg.openid.net by CNAME, so that everything can be accessed in
> openid.net
> >> domain.
> >> I am pretty sure that you can do the same with the google sites, so you
> >> should do that -> Eric.
> >>
> >> As to the mailing list are concerned, we are using openid.net mailman.
> >> However, I am pretty sure again here that you can create a google group
> >> under openid.net domain.
> >> (I thought David has setup one. AB/Connect WG predated that so we did
> not
> >> bother to migrate.) Either will be fine.
> >>
> >> At the end of the day, the requirement from the process point of view is
> >> that it will be able to be accessed as a subdomain of openid.net.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> >> Chairman, OpenID Foundation
> >> http://nat.sakimura.org/
> >> @_nat_en
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Eric Sachs | Senior Product Manager | esachs at google.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> Chairman, OpenID Foundation
> http://nat.sakimura.org/
> @_nat_en
>



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Eric Sachs | Senior Product Manager | esachs at google.com
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