[OpenID board] Why Connect?

[Dick Hardt]

On 2010-05-24, at 12:57 PM, David Recordon wrote:

> One of the questions that a variety of people have asked the past few days is why are we working on Connect versus just v.Next? I wanted to provide the community with an answer. It turns out that while there are common themes among the potential working group members, the reasons vary a litle.

I would still like to see the requirements reflected in the charter.

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> To Eran's point, this sort of technology is going to be built whether or not the OpenID Foundation leads.

Eran is clearly biased towards OAuth. :)

> At our Board meeting a few months ago we changed our mission to include supporting technologies beyond just OpenID 2.0. This is a perfect opportunity to show that we actually mean it.


That was not what the board changed the mission to. As the proposer of the motion, I am pretty clear on what we voted on. We said our mission was to build upon the OpenID Technology to solve the Internet Identity problem. 

I think that if you want to build identity on top of OAuth, that you should write an OAuth extension.

-- Dick