[Marketing] [OpenID] Website Being Updated Today

[Drummond Reed]

I agree with the way Scott frames it, i.e., the two driving requirements
are:

* Something that is easy and intuitive for users who decide, after visiting
OpenID.net, that they want to get an OpenID.
* Something that is fair to all OpenID providers who would like to offer
users that opportunity.

I also agree let's not committee it to death. Let's just:

1) Agree on a policy via an OpenID.net wiki page (if David doesn't want to
do a first cut, I'm willing too, but I can't do it until later this week).

2) Inform OPs about the policy.

3) Come up with a simple way to list OPs who abide by the policy.

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: marketing-bounces at openid.net [mailto:marketing-bounces at openid.net]
> On Behalf Of Scott Kveton
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: Dick Hardt
> Cc: OpenID marketing; david at sixapart.com
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] [OpenID] Website Being Updated Today
> 
> > I think it is a very slippery slope for the website and/or board to
> > recommend OpenID providers without being inclusive of ALL providers.
> 
> I would agree with this if we were talking about just about anything
> other than a users digital identity.  Let me explain.
> 
> There have been countless blog posts and notes to the general list
> saying "if I am a user, where do I get an OpenID?"  People invariably
> end up at openid.net and then are completely stumped.  The process is
> painful at best (well, before yesterday it was).
> 
> Now, if you look at the listing on the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.openid.net/Public_OpenID_providers
> 
> we see 40+ sites that provide OpenID's ... now this is fair to every
> single provider out there but is completely worthless for the end
> user.  They want to click a button and end up at a provider.  Now, if
> they are coming to openid.net for a digital identity and we send them
> off to a evil/bogus/soon-to-be-out-of-business provider, how good is
> that for the user and/or OpenID as a whole?
> 
> To that end, I actually like Drummond's proposal however, I don't want
> to committee this to death so that we create something that makes
> everyone happy but creates a completely confusing tool for end-users.
> I firmly believe that we need to create a tool that is easy for users
> or, no matter how inclusive it is, it will fail.
> 
> - Scott
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