[OpenID] This is not a company election

[Peter Williams]

If it helps, the PKI break out of 1994 was a partnership between crypto and lawyers. It would not have happened without both parties (multi-year) partnership.US Federal helped out a lot in facilitating (in the actions of DARPA, NIST and NASA). NSA indirectly helped, too, by engineering ISO to participate.

There is little in openid that has evolved much beyond those analysis points. Should be possible to borrow 90% of it, and get from 0-60mph very quickly. (Some of us even wrote books on the cross-disciplinary aspects of assurance, targeting the vb programmer audience).



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From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Johannes Ernst
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [OpenID] This is not a company election


On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:16, Chris Messina wrote:
> Diversity is one thing that open source needs more of, and I'd love to
> work on coming up with a plan in the next year to expand and increase
> the number of active stakeholders and contributors to OpenID -- that
> goes well beyond the protocol layer and into the social, political and
> economic aspects of user-centric identity technologies.

Right. And that would be a great avenue to build the capabilities to get the higher-level "protocols" right, such as the legal templates that we are already being asked to provide -- a request that will become more important in the future, and that the OIDF is currently ill-equipped to even completely understand, never mind meet.

Would love to work with you and others in this direction. After all, that's more the proper role of a board than, say, micromanaging or attempting to do all the work itself ;-)

Cheers,



Johannes.



Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.