<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hi Tony,<br><br>Drummond just alerted me to this issue.&nbsp; I just wanted to reiterate that we have been entirely rigorous about using the acronym 'OIDF' when referring to the OpenID Foundation.&nbsp; <br><br>How are you?&nbsp; It would be nice to catch up.&nbsp; Will you be around next month at IIW at all?<br><br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Forwarded Message ----<br>From: Drummond Reed &lt;drummond.reed@cordance.net&gt;<br>To: board@openid.net<br>Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:51:01 PM<br>Subject: [OpenID board] FW: Use of "OID" for Open ID foundation<br><br>
FYI - Tony Rutkowski sent the message below to the ID Gang list advising us<br>not to use the acronym "OID" when referring to the OpenID Foundation. He<br>seemed fine with OIDF, which is what I use.<br><br>=Drummond <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com" href="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com">idworkshop@googlegroups.com</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com" href="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com">idworkshop@googlegroups.com</a>] On<br>Behalf Of Tony Rutkowski<br>Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:40 AM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com" href="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com">idworkshop@googlegroups.com</a><br>Subject: Use of "OID" for Open ID foundation<br><br><br>Hi all,<br><br>I understand that someone is unwittingly doing this.<br><br>Bad choice.<br><br>OID for the past 20 year refers to "Object ID" - the<br>"other' domain name infrastructure developed
 by<br>the Open Systems Interconnection world 25 years<br>ago, and used today as the primary global namespace<br>of digital certificates, SNMP, RFIDs (as of last week),<br>and various other uses.<br><br>--tony<br><br><br>--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups<br>"Identity Gang" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a ymailto="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com" href="mailto:idworkshop@googlegroups.com">idworkshop@googlegroups.com</a><br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to<br><a ymailto="mailto:idworkshop-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com" href="mailto:idworkshop-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">idworkshop-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>For more options, visit this group at<br><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/idworkshop?hl=en"
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