+1<br><br>(one Latin American perception...)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2008 7:30 PM, Raj Mata <<a href="mailto:rajmata@yahoo-inc.com">rajmata@yahoo-inc.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All,<br><br>I guess, I did not send my earlier reply to the entire board list - so<br>re-sending.<br><br>I agree with Seki-San, and in my experience with such organizations,<br>having one global legal entity with local chapters (not legally<br>
incorporated!) as necessary works best! This avoids<br>duplication/fragmentation of activity (both technical and<br>non-technical), but yet preserves the localization aspects through the<br>local chapters!<br><font color="#888888"><br>
Raj<br></font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net">board-bounces@openid.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net">board-bounces@openid.net</a>] On<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Behalf Of Krall, Gary<br>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:23 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</a>; <a href="mailto:david@sixapart.com">david@sixapart.com</a><br>
Cc: Sakimura Nat; Kentaro Sakamoto<br>Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan<br><br>Seki-san:<br><br>In your comments below you say: "...and some major ID providers, such<br>as Microsoft Japan..." I personally am very familiar with the work<br>
being done at the other sites you mentioned but I was unaware of any<br>specific activities of a Microsoft service in Japan around OpenID.<br><br>Could you expand upon that a bit?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Gary.<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net">board-bounces@openid.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:board-bounces@openid.net">board-bounces@openid.net</a>]On<br>Behalf Of Nobuhiro Seki<br>Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 3:30 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:david@sixapart.com">david@sixapart.com</a><br>Cc: Sakimura Nat; <a href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</a>; Kentaro Sakamoto<br>Subject: Re: [OpenID board] OpenID Foundation and Japan<br><br>
<br>Hi all,<br><br>I am Nob Seki, General Manager of Six Apart for Japan. Let me give you a<br><br>quick overview of the market.<br><br>Adoption of OpenID in Japan is almost as quick as that in the US, so it<br>is great if we can show some momentum to the Japanese market. The<br>
biggest ID provider, Yahoo Japan, announced the adoption of OpenID on<br>the same day of the announcement of Yahoo!, Inc, and some major ID<br>providers, such as Microsoft Japan, Livedoor and Hatena, already support<br><br>
OpenID. (Google's Blogger does not have big presence in the Japanese<br>market -- yet ;-)<br><br>Especially after the corporate board was established at OIDF last week,<br>big attention to OpenID has been made in the Japanese market, so it<br>
would be great if we do something soon in the market. FYI, David will<br>come to Tokyo in the week of Feb 25, so we may have a press conference<br>describing the general principle of OIDF to the rest of the world then.<br>
<br>Me personally likes Option 2 (no legal entity but a virtual chapter of<br>OIDF) because (a) it is easy and quick, (b) Japanese providers do not<br>have to take part in two entities (OIDF and its Japanese entity), and<br>
(c) clear affiliation b/w OIDF and Japanese providers is made<br>(contribution should be made to OIDF, not its Japanese entity if<br>established).<br><br>That's my personal thought, so please feel free to discuss further!<br>
Thanks,<br>Nob Seki (<a href="mailto:nseki@sixapart.jp">nseki@sixapart.jp</a>)<br>Six Apart, Ltd.<br><br>David Recordon wrote:<br>> Hi all,<br>> I'm trying to bring together a few different threads of conversation<br>
> around formalizing OpenID in Japan. Six Apart KK, NRI, and VeriSign<br>> KK have been speaking for the past few months about the desire to both<br><br>> protect OpenID intellectual property in Japan as well as having an<br>
> organization to promote and encourage adoption of OpenID via. So far<br>> there seem to be a few possibilities (feel free to correct me if I'm<br>> wrong):<br>> 1) Do not establish any legal entity or formal recognition of members<br>
<br>> of the OpenID Foundation from Japan<br>> 2) Do not establish a legal entity in Japan but somehow recognize<br>> members of the OpenID Foundation from Japan<br>> 3) Establish a legal entity in Japan which is not formally part of<br>
> the OpenID Foundation, but is recognized like OpenID Europe Foundation<br>> 4) Establish a legal entity in Japan which is formally a part of the<br>> OpenID Foundation (eg Mozilla Europe)<br>><br>> Obviously there are various pros and cons to each choice, though we<br>
> should also remember that the decision here will most likely dictate<br>> the outcome of future similar scenarios. I'd be especially interested<br><br>> in the views of the multi-national companies especially those also<br>
> working with OpenID internationally.<br>><br>> --David<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>board mailing list<br><a href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</a><br><a href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board" target="_blank">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board</a><br>
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