<div>Dear OpenID Fans: </div><div><br></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.5em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
The OpenID membership has approved the following specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts in the <a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/62" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">vote held from February 7th to 15th, 2012</a> at <a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/62">https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/62</a>:</p>
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• Basic Client Profile – Simple self-contained specification for a web-based Relying Party. (This spec contains a subset of the information in Messages and Standard.)<br>• Discovery – Defines how user and provider endpoints can be dynamically discovered.<br>
• Dynamic Registration – Defines how clients can dynamically register with OpenID Providers.<br>• Messages – Defines all the messages that are used in OpenID Connect. (These messages are used by the Standard binding.)<br>
• Standard – Complete HTTP binding of the Messages, for both Relying Parties and OpenID Providers.<br>• Multiple Response Type Encoding – Registers OAuth 2.0 response_type values used by OpenID Connect.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.5em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
The voting results were:</p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:1.5em;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:1.8em;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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Approve (86 votes)</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:small;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5em">
Disapprove (1 vote)</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:small;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.5em">
Abstain (2 votes)</li></ul><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.5em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Total Votes: 89 (out of 363 members = 25% > 20% quorum requirement)</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.5em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.5em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
The specifications are posted at these locations:</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-size:13px;font-family:'Lucida Grande','Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:1.5em;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
• <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0-15.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0-15.html</a><br>
• <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0-07.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0-07.html</a><br>
• <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0-08.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0-08.html</a><br>
• <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-messages-1_0-07.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-messages-1_0-07.html</a><br>
• <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0-07.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0-07.html</a><br>
• <a href="http://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0-03.html" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0-03.html</a></p>
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A description of OpenID Connect can be found at <a href="http://openid.net/connect/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/connect/</a>.</p>
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The working group page is <a href="http://openid.net/wg/connect/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(41,112,203);text-decoration:none">http://openid.net/wg/connect/</a>.</p>
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Enjoy! </p>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<div>Chairman, OpenID Foundation<br><a href="http://nat.sakimura.org/" target="_blank">http://nat.sakimura.org/</a><br>@_nat_en</div><br>