[Marketing] Some bullet points on OpenID and OpenID Foundation

Drummond Reed drummond.reed at cordance.net
Tue Jan 29 08:37:28 UTC 2008


+1. Again, the best phrase I've seen for this is Bill's "portable
identifiers".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: marketing-bounces at openid.net [mailto:marketing-bounces at openid.net]
> On Behalf Of Johannes Ernst
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 8:53 PM
> To: OpenID marketing
> Subject: Re: [Marketing] Some bullet points on OpenID and OpenID
> Foundation
> 
> 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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