[OpenID] Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

[Drummond Reed]

Exactly, David, that's the process I was referring to.

It should be as lightweight as possible.

I guess the main question is, is there sufficient interest in either a
bugfix release or a more significant new release to start up a mailing list
on OpenID Authentication yet?

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Recordon [mailto:drecordon at sixapart.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 12:15 PM
> To: Drummond Reed; Brad Fitzpatrick
> Cc: Noah Slater; OpenID specs list; DeWitt Clinton
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14
> 
> I don't see why changes would really need to wait, if there is an
> interested group of people then lets spin up a mailing list and get
> participants to agree to the IP policy.
> 
> The entire goal of having "working groups" and seperate mailing lists
> is to help ensure that future OpenID specs are not encumbered with
> intellectual property issues.  The easiest, and most common, way to do
> this is creating seperate technical working mailing lists based around
> related topics or a specification.  This allows people to choose where
> they wish to participate since the requirement of posting to one of
> these lists is agreeing that your contributions are being made under
> the OpenID IPR Policy.
> 
> This list (specs at openid.net) is a great place to identity issues that
> need addressing and figuring out who wants to work on solving them.
> Once that happens, I have no problem helping to make it "legit" so
> that the resulting spec is good from an IP perspective.
> 
> --David
> 
> On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Noah Slater [mailto:nslater at bytesexual.org]
> >> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:43 AM
> >> To: Drummond Reed
> >> Cc: specs at openid.net
> >> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14
> >>
> >>> Noah, you are in the right place (and the General list is the wrong
> >>> place, which is why I have removed that cc).
> >>
> >> Okay, thank you.
> >>
> >>> Once those groups start, they will each have dedicated mailing
> >>> lists. In
> >>> the meantime, this is the list for discussing any spec issues. So
> >>> far
> >>> one OpenID Authentication 2.0 editor, Johnny Bufu, has commented on
> >>> the thread you started.
> >>
> >> Im a little confused about what this means. Does this mean that
> >> this issue
> >> will not get properly looked at until such time as the new WGs have
> >> been
> >> set up?
> >
> > It doesn't mean it won't get "looked at" or discussed here. However
> > any
> > formal changes to the specifications must wait until these WGs are
> > started.
> >
> >> Is there anywhere further to go from here?
> >
> > No, this is the right place, and until the WGs are started, any
> > discussion
> > should take place on this list.
> >
> > I'll bring it up at the next OpenID Foundation board meeting (this
> > Thursday)
> > so board members are aware of this issue.
> >
> > =Drummond
> >
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