[OpenID - Eu] [OpenID board] Status of the OpenID Foundation Europe
Henrik Biering
hb at netamia.com
Wed Nov 25 17:04:54 UTC 2009
I am extremely happy to see Don's response to the problems outlined in
this thread.
Definitely some support from the OIDF is needed to get Europe on track.
Don:
Prague in late April seems fine from a climatic point of view, but I am
not sure that an OpenID seminar or workshop should be an integral part
of the Catalyst Conference. I think the matters prospective large RP's
want to have resolved before kick-off are much more basic business
issues: "Whats in it for me?", "How will it impact my existing
userbase", "Did anyone else do it with success ($$)?", and in some cases
"Is it secure?" They need a cookbook rather than a palette of 100
options, which is why I think is is important to have the UI and AX
specs settled asap. It is also a question of whether the location(s)
should rather be selected based on the concentration of potential RP's.
Maybe now is a good time to start gauging the interest in various countries.
Santosh:
As soon as you take OpenID to assurance levels higher than 0, we have
common legislative issues and industry associations within Europe that
makes a coordinated effort feasible in some respects. Whether or not a
separate organization is mandated or not should be resolved as part of
the work proposed by Don. In general an organization has a purpose if it
facilitates the work that needs to be done rather than getting in the
way of it (btw. thats why OpenID-DK is organized as a network rather
than a legal entity).
=henrik
Santosh Rajan skrev:
> PS: Please don't argue about "politics" and "DNS". OpenID should be
> independant of DNS. here are some examples.
> 1) My OpenID http://santosh.in
> 2) somebody elses OpenID http://example.jp
> 3) another example http://example.com/joe
> In all the cases above you can see that we are politically independent
> yet technologically exactly the same.
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com
> <mailto:santrajan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Don,
> I think you have missed the point entirely. Let me quote our
> european colleagues. " was also wondering whether it would be more
> appropriate to have one single consolidated foundation".
>
> Right! Lets think in terms of one single consolidated foundation.
>
> So what have you got to say about that?
>
> Now let me add my personal views to this. Living in an
> increasingly globalized world, something so universal like
> "identity", should be globalized and made "one".
>
> Instead of breaking up OpenID into cultural, geographic and
> language boundaries, we should be working towards unifying OpenID
> into one universal Identity.
>
> I think it is ridiculous to think of OpenID europe, or OpenID
> Japan or OpenID India or whatever you want to call it.
>
> Thanks
> Santosh
>
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)
> <don at oidf.org <mailto:don at oidf.org>> 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
>
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> 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 <http://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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