[OpenID] Three questions for candidates

[Mike Kirkwood]

Kick,

Here are short thoughts on each of your questions.

--Mike
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From: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of kick willemse [k.willemse at diginotar.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:42 AM
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Subject: [OpenID] Three questions for candidates

Dear candidates, I have three questions:

1. Responsible for a 300K user insurance portal, give me three main business reasons to go for openid and convince my board.

- There are a lot of Insurance information out there today, by starting with (at least part) of the experience to the public being through OpenID, you'll distinguish your company as ready for the future.   I'm not sure your portal configuration, but did a bit of review of the Insurance Blogs out there and see there are a lot of companies that have expanded their voices

- Thinking through opendID for your company will help define use cases for your users.   For example, do you require logon for a quote today?   That might be a service that you want to consider making easier to the public (e.g. not logon/registration), OpenID can provide a way to communicate that message to users (e.g. we're making it easy for you, and we're not asking for your private data

- Ecosystem planning.   Considering how it might work in the ecosystem, e.g. in future, if a MS HealthVault customer, MySpace user, or other wants to check out your service.   OpenID can help the company plan to participate in the ecosystem, and perhaps enable parts of the portal to be shared across other social platforms.    The key (in my opinion) opportunity is thinking of the users in this new way.   That is the big opportunity for the board, simply, user-acquisition and visibility

2. I see openid as a network product like gsm,water, adsl, atm or e-mail. What is your relevant experience in these type of projects to come to a turning point and bring openid to the mass

I've been fortunate to spend a lot of time in "basic services", being a lead at Cisco, I participated heavily in the technology stack and product offerings for the network services.   Of course, IP has done quite well in the market, but being involved at a deep level in technologies, it becomes clear that the people driving the standards (through companies or open source) are the key to success.

Also, had a chance to participate in W3C (RDF), OASIS (ebXML), UBL, RosettaNet, UNSPSC.    All of the things I've been fortunate to participate in have made significant progress towards a ubiquity and have been successful.   My strength seems to be as a facilitator and decision maker.

I've also had 5 patents in "enterprise metadata systems" that were granted at Cisco.  The system they were applied for went into production and managed Cisco.com as the core engine in production.   Have had the chance to take a new idea, protect it, and also deploy it in a very real business scenario.   Currently, I have 4 patents outstanding, 3 of them at Polka, 1 at Sony.

Have been enterprise architect / senior leader for many small and several very large projects and brought into the enterprise a variety of technologies, including:  Identity Management, Messaging Bus (tibco, webmethods), SSO (Oblix, Netegrity), Application Hosting (Java, .Net, Oracle Apps), ERP (SAP, Oracle), and scaling web architectures with a host of technologies and approaches.

3. What candidate would you like to have in your team and why.

Great question.   I'm a big fan of the voice Chris brings to the table, the business expertise that Brian brings, the passion of Dick, the leadership Eric brings, and the raw energy and commitment of David.  I've had the most exposure to them.   Snorri, Scott, Eran, Johannes seem to also have determined and concentrated efforts and interests in the group, I have heard their voice in the groups and think is very valuable.   Also, I really like the idea of Facebook, Yahoo, and Canada being involved.    So, short answer for me.   All of the candidates are strong and have the best interests of OpenID involved.   The key is getting a group that can really work together.   I'm happy to work with all in this group and think the membership will do a good job of picking members who represent the opportunity of OpenID.

Kick
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From: general-bounces at openid.net [general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of kick willemse [k.willemse at diginotar.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:42 AM
To: general at openid.net
Subject: [OpenID] Three questions for candidates

Dear candidates, I have three questions:

1. Responsible for a 300K user insurance portal, give me three main business reasons to go for openid and convince my board.
2. I see openid as a network product like gsm,water, adsl, atm or e-mail. What is your relevant experience in these type of projects to come to a turning point and bring openid to the mass
3. What candidate would you like to have in your team and why.

Kick
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