Promoting OpenID

[McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)]

Imagine the waves through the technology community when end-customers stand up and preach how to code to vendors. Sadly, I am only outlining the problem space in hopes that others could step up and run with it. I think it would be appropriate for me to participate in panel discussions at upcoming industry conferences where folks from other verticals could observe the conversation but I wouldn't be permitted to have that type of interaction with vendors as NDA's, code of conduct and other situations would arise.

Verisign as an organization has the best characteristics in terms of satisfying this need. Now, it is a matter of whether Verisign truly wants OpenID to be big or whether they are simply dabbling. Promotion could be as simple as putting more information about user-centric approaches on the Verisign homepage.

-----Original Message-----
From: Recordon, David [mailto:drecordon at verisign.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:18 PM
To: McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); specs at openid.net
Subject: RE: Promoting OpenID


People might be, though nothing real formal that I personally know of.
You volunteering? :P

--David 

-----Original Message-----
From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT)
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:15 AM
To: specs at openid.net
Subject: Promoting OpenID

As an end-user to user-centric approaches, I have noticed an interesting
pattern. Microsoft does a wonderful job of selling Cardspace as a
solution to others who develop in Microsoft languages. Likewise, there
are tons of vendors that can offer solutions for large enterprises to
purchase but no one is promoting user-centric approaches to the vendors
us large enterprises do business with in terms of getting them to
embrace user-centric approaches within their own code base. Sure, we can
as consumers raise awareness, but I would like to understand thoughts on
other than procurement, how could we make this more pervasive?

Is anyone here working with vendors in the ERP, CRM, ECM, BPM or VRM
spaces such that user-centric identity is built into their product?



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