<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 23, 2010, at 11:18, Brian Kissel wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Market Requirement Document (<a href="http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/01/0104sj" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">MRD</a>) – what needs in the market are we trying to address (easier registration and login, portable reuse of personal profiles and other metadata, social publishing across sites, enhanced security, etc.). As Eric and Raj observed at the last board meeting, it doesn’t seem like we can paint this with a broad brush. Perhaps there are some baseline requirements across all markets and applications, but there may be unique requirements by segment (social web, ecommerce, media & entertainment companies, government, etc.). Seems like we should first agree on the key markets/applications and corresponding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/magazine/1/4/0310sj/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">personas</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">use cases</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Speaking as a community member, this would be a very useful document to have, for many, many reasons. So +1.</div><div><br></div><div>Interest and adoption of OpenID and related technologies has grown far beyond where heroic individuals can say "trust me, I understand the problem." and the rest of the market follows. Or forks, as we currently seem to be in danger of. It's time to institutionalize things and having a shared MRD would be an essential ingredient for that.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Johannes.</div><div><br></div></body></html>