[OpenID - Eu] Mission Statement

[Recordon, David]

Yes, this was a lot of the reasoning behind us not having a certification program, wanting to make sure the organization remained neutral and it didn't seem like anyone had to pay money to use OpenID.

What we're more looking at is creating testing tools so that people can have an official way to make sure their RP or OP correctly implements the protocol.  The main difference we see between this and certification is that no one is paying money to use the tools nor there be a list of "compliant" providers.

We just see it as hard to mix owning things like trademarks, domains, etc with a paid certification program since there is the potential for people to think they *have to* pay the certification fee to use OpenID.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: Snorri [mailto:snorri at snorri.eu] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:20 PM
To: Recordon, David; 'Andrew Tominson'; 'Chris Obdam'
Cc: eu at openid.net
Subject: RE: [OpenID - Eu] Mission Statement
Importance: High

Hello,

Thank you Andrew for your good resume,

Chris, of the beginning, I thought that the foundation was to propose a certification for the "best" providers (or relying party),
But today, my opinion is that the foundation must be always neutral! Is not the first objective! (Later it will be always possible to think of it, yes!), 

The Mission Statement of OpenID Europe Foundation is to push for the "implementations" in the maximum of websites. Because true work is here! (To become OP is easy ;-))
I will appreciate that all your ideas and initiatives go in this direction... (I work much to convince)

What do you think about it?

-Snorri

-----Message d'origine-----
De : eu-bounces at openid.net [mailto:eu-bounces at openid.net] De la part de Recordon, David
Envoyé : mercredi 30 mai 2007 17:34
À : Andrew Tominson; eu at openid.net
Objet : Re: [OpenID - Eu] Mission Statement

Hey Andrew,
Those seem quite reasonable to me.

One of the other things we did was explicitly define things which we would not do to help scope the organization.  For example:
 - Approve OpenID specifications
 - Certify OpenID providers or implementations

Just a good way to keep the organization growing from what it was intended to do by accident.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: eu-bounces at openid.net [mailto:eu-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Tominson
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 8:54 AM
To: eu at openid.net
Subject: [OpenID - Eu] Mission Statement

Had a go at the mission statement and put together some bullet points...

* The purpose of the OpenID Europe Foundation is to raise the profile of OpenID for people within the European Union.

* Through contact with both implementers and the general public, we increase awareness, ease deployment and promote OpenID in a way everyone can understand.

* We are active within the wider OpenID community and through contact with founders and developers, we are the European voice of OpenID and represent our members when key decisions are being made.

* We advise businesses to help them deliver OpenID-compatible products to maximise the value of the technology for the general public.

Just my €0.02 worth, but as I said before I am new here ;)

Andrew

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