OpenID 2.0 finalization progress

Pat Patterson Andrew.Patterson at Sun.COM
Fri Oct 19 23:36:13 UTC 2007


+1 FWIW

Interested parties, feel free to use the Sun OpenID NAC as a model -  
http://www.sun.com/software/standards/persistent/openid/nac.xml

Cheers,

Pat

On Oct 19, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> Some years ago, if I recall correctly, Rambus participated in an open
> industry process (or so the other participants thought) to define
> certain memory communications protocols, and after they had produced
> a spec, Rambus said "but we have some patents". This lead to at least
> one lawsuit I believe.
>
> I have heard wildly diverging assessments on whether or not this
> could happen here. The way to move forward is to put the IPR policy
> in place prior to declaring any new specs final; fortunately we are
> very close on the IPR policy.
>
> I strongly suggest that whoever feels the urgency to get a 2.0 spec
> declared final to help out driving the IPR process to a close. That's
> on the critical path, and that's where all energies should be  
> directed.
>
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 12:23, Kevin Turner wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:02 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 19:13 -0700, Dick Hardt wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't see why the two processes need to be any more dependant on
>>>> each other then they are already.
>>>
>>> With all due respect, why take the risk that there are intellectual
>>> property issues after the specification is finalized?
>>
>> I'll let my ignorance show here: How will any potential IPR issues
>> affect the final specification?  I recognize that many parties  
>> require
>> the IPR documentation before moving forward with their adoption of
>> OpenID.  However, there are many parties who do _not_ feel that need,
>> and I do not understand what the downside is to calling the
>> specification final now.  Are we waiting on the results of a patent
>> search which might necessitate re-working parts of the protocol?   
>> What
>> exactly are the consequences, worst case, in calling the  
>> specification
>> "final" before the IPR is sealed?
>>
>>
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