[Marketing] Some bullet points on OpenID and OpenID Foundation

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Tue Jan 29 04:53:26 UTC 2008


What about "empowers people to bring their own identity, instead of  
having to sign up for yet another at each site."


On Jan 28, 2008, at 15:38, Dick Hardt wrote:

>
> On 28-Jan-08, at 1:17 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>
>> My suggestions:
>> - let's define ourselves in positive terms, not by what we are
>> not. And who knows, perhaps we will, next quarter?
>
> my comments in brackets were background information to clarify what
> we were stating, not to be part of the message
>
>> - I like Bill's analogy:
>>
>>> ... OpenID is a building block upon which end users can/will begin
>>> to establish their independence on the web in much the same way
>>> that ISPs gave individuals actual email independence from the old
>>> walled gardens of that bygone era of Prodigy, Compuserve, and the
>>> pre-Internet versions of AOL and MSN.
>
> An analogy is way to move a message. Let's agree on the message
> first! :-)
>
>>
>> And I know everybody will hate me for saying this, but:
>>
>>> +OpenID is a set of specifications to solve user internet identity
>>> problems
>>
>>
>> is not going to be comprehensible to many people. What exactly are
>> "user internet identity problems"?
>
>
> This is a messaging platform, not the message. Do we agree that we
> want to move this message? Do you have a suggestion on a concise way
> of describing the problem?
>
> -- Dick
>
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