<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:bookman old style,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Excellent David!<br><br>Let me know how I can help.<br><br>This will be immediately significant. It is becoming more important by the week that this be cleared up as far as organizational memberships are concerned.<br><br>The longer it remains unsettled, the more difficult it becomes to accomplish most other substantive tasks.<br><br>-bill<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Recordon, David" <drecordon@verisign.com><br>To: board@openid.net<br>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:54:00 PM<br>Subject: [OpenID board] FW: [Marketing] IPR Info on Specs Page<br><br><div>Had meant to do this for a while, but seemed especially important
given<br>the article by Dave Kearns and then a blog post by Phil Hunt of Oracle<br>(<a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.oracle.com/identityprivacy/2007/07/19#a67">http://blogs.oracle.com/identityprivacy/2007/07/19#a67</a>).<br><br>I know the board passed a motion a few months ago for all board members<br>to issue non-assertion statements. I'm thinking now would be a good<br>time to start getting that rolling since VeriSign has issued one and<br>Sxip has said they will to Dave Kearns.<br><br>I'd be happy to start contacting companies around this as well.<br><br>--David<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: marketing-bounces@openid.net [mailto:marketing-bounces@openid.net]<br>On Behalf Of Recordon, David<br>Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:51 AM<br>To: marketing@openid.net<br>Subject: [Marketing] IPR Info on Specs Page<br><br>Just added a section on IPR status and efforts around OpenID specs to<br><a target="_blank"
href="http://openid.net/specs.bml">http://openid.net/specs.bml</a>. This is becoming quite relevant given some<br>of the discussions and articles this week.<br><br>Now to build out this list of companies! :)<br><br>--David<br>_______________________________________________<br>marketing mailing list<br>marketing@openid.net<br><a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/marketing">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/marketing</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>board mailing list<br>board@openid.net<br><a target="_blank" href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board</a><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>