[OpenID board] BOARD VOTE: Motion to update Rails plugin andOpenID.net ...

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 17:14:45 UTC 2008


On 18-Dec-08, at 8:59 AM, Brian Kissel wrote:

> Agreed there is no consensus on the UX for OpenID ;-)  Not sure  
> there ever will be.  And to be clear, I was not requesting nor  
> advocating paying anything to JanRain, only offering that we could  
> do that for free if requested.  Seems like the simplest, quickest,  
> cheapest thing would be to have Refresh Media put the text box on  
> the front of RPX.

Using a specific vendors OpenID technology is inappropriate for the  
Foundation. Period.

> If AOL were willing to modify their UX at MapQuest to include the  
> top X (10, 15, 20?) commercial OPs, would that be a better UX?

Irrelevant for the Foundation.

> I could ask George if they’d be willing to do that for free.  I  
> remember when this discussion came up earlier, there were a number  
> of people who suggested that having a more intuitive UX on the OIDF  
> website would be a good thing.

That does not make it the right thing to do.

>
> We have a new membership polling tool, why not use that to see what  
> our membership thinks?  Seems like getting the membership input  
> would be helpful.

We have a process for specifications -- it is not polling the  
membership.

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