Question on Conferences and the Marketing of OpenID

[James McGovern]

I learned of OpenID because I ran across it while blogging. Otherwise, in
context of my day job working for a Fortune 100 enterprise whose primary
business model isn't technology otherwise would have never heard of it.
While this list is to discuss specifications, this begs the question of
should we create specifications around how to get the word out better to all
of my industry peers.

Noticed that folks from Verisign were key players in the creation of this
spec, yet it is not prominently mentioned on their web site. If you know to
search for it, it still only returns two results. What do we need to do to
get Verisign and the other large guys (small guys are covered) to show a
little more respect towards OpenID in terms of their own web site?

I ran across The : Authentication and Online Trust Alliance and their
upcoming conference (http://www.aotalliance.org/summit2007/) and noted that
no one is talking about stuff in our space. Does anyone have a list of all
planned 2007 conferences where OpenID should be discussed?

Also curious if anyone has been pushing the industry analyst crowd to
provide coverage? If not, I will need lots of folks to start submitting
inquiries to Gartner, Forrester and the Burton Group to get them to pay
attention.