[OpenID board] Status of the OpenID Foundation Europe

[Nat Sakimura]

Santosh,

I think you should read messages more carefully.
Neither mine or Don's message says anything about breaking up the
foundation.

Also, to your point of "Single, Unified, Centralized organization" view, I
do not agree that the situation that we live is as simple as that. You
invariably are required to meet the local legislation and it is quite
unrealistic and cost in-efficient to do it centralized way. Like OpenID
itself, I believe such should be distributed. Marketing is the same. A local
organization can do the marketing much more effectively than a centralized
organization as different culture may require very different requirement
sets.

After all, I do not fancy a world that "the global government" mandating its
way of doing things to other cultures.Perhaps I value diversity, freedom,
and autonomy much more than you do.

=nat

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nat, Is that a +1 for breaking up OpenID?
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Also, I suggest contacting Robert Ott of OpenID Switzerland as well on the
>> EU front.
>>
>> =nat
>>
>>
>> (2009/11/25 22:51), Don Thibeau (OIDF ED) wrote:
>>
>>> The OpenID Foundation has much work to do in Europe in 2010.
>>>
>>> I hope the board elections underway will increase our representation,
>>> resources and expertise on several fronts WRT OpenID EU.
>>> I plan to propose a 2010 OpenID Foundation EU committee to:
>>> 1. Review the analysis underway of our trademarks and brands
>>> 2. Discuss EU membership outreach and organization
>>> 3. Review EU budget plans and priorities.
>>>
>>> With that new committee's help and that of Henrik, Snorri and others, I
>>> plan
>>> to propose the 2010 board sponsor a "OpenID Summit Europe" to occur
>>> around
>>> the Burton Catalyst Europe, April 19-22 in Prague.  I have been invited
>>> to
>>> speak at that conference http://www.catalyst.burtongroup.com/eu10/
>>>
>>> Don Thibeau
>>> don at OIDF.org
>>> Executive Director
>>> The OpenID Foundation
>>> http://openid.net
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net
>>> [mailto:openid-board-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Henrik
>>> Biering
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:07 PM
>>> To: Snorri Giorgetti
>>> Cc: openid-board at lists.openid.net; openid-eu at lists.openid.net
>>> Subject: [OpenID board] Status of the OpenID Foundation Europe
>>>
>>> Hi Snorri,
>>> how are you doing? I have not heard anything from you for quite a long
>>> time.
>>>
>>> Yesterday, I discovered that the openid.dk domain registered by OpenID
>>> foundation Europe had expired and had been deactivated.
>>> I have now managed to pay the invoice and get the domain reactivated.
>>>
>>> However, I wonder about the situation of OpenID Europe Foundation in
>>> general. You have done an impressive job of aquiring the European and
>>> National Trademarks for OpenID as well as several national OpenID
>>> domains on behalf of the EU foundation, and it would be sad to see the
>>> result of these efforts vanish.
>>>
>>> If there are no resources available to maintain OpenID Foundation
>>> Europe, maybe it is appropriate to consider how this IPR may be
>>> consolidated within the global OpenID Foundation (or alternatively at
>>> the national levels).
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Henrik Biering
>>> OpenID-DK representative
>>>
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