[OpenID] More on the Visa analogy (another question-set for candidates)

[Johannes Ernst]

On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:03, SitG Admin wrote:

> Have you consciously avoided "politics" during this election?  
> (Answer for however YOU define politics; if in the affirmative,  
> please explain what you understand politics to be.)

So far, the OIDF board hasn't been very political -- which has been  
one of the great things about it, and I hope we can keep it that way.  
So I'm not surprised that the elections aren't very political either.  
Regardless how you define "politics" ;-)

> What questions have been asked, that you know of offhand? Which  
> questions, if any, did you NOT answer? Per question, explain WHY you  
> did not answer it - i.e., the answer could have hurt your vote  
> count, you didn't know the answer, you didn't see any need to even  
> address the issue, etcetera.

I think I skipped some where I was basically in agreement with  
everybody else and the issue did not seem to be contentious. No need  
to fill everybody's inbox with long missives saying "I agree". I may  
have missed some buried inside some of the longer threads; that's a  
"may" because by definition, I don't know ;-) I'm hoping for somebody  
to insist if they really wanted a particular question answered.

> Were there any questions that you are STILL thinking about? Please  
> be up-front with whether your silence on any questions has been due  
> to not wanting to speak until you have come to any sort of  
> conclusion, or you have already made up your mind but simply haven't  
> said yet what it is that you *do* believe.

There are a ton of questions whose answers are unclear, or where there  
are multiple competing answers. This list here contains many of them  
in some fashion:
	http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Strategy

Many of them depend on how the new board will organize itself, by  
which principles it decides to operate, and how it decides to interact  
with the local chapters and the community. If elected, what I may or  
may not believe there is less important than what consensus we may or  
may not be able to forge. I believe I have outlined my basic point of  
view earlier.

Cheers,



Johannes.


Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.

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