[OpenID] On the OpenID trademark

[Johannes Ernst]

On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:45, Rob wrote:

> I think it is good to set standards for entities claiming to use the
> technologies related to the mark it might even be good to require a
> standardize way of disclosing what personal info is required to use/ 
> create an
> openid on that site but is there a clear policy about "meta" uses  
> of the mark?

You mean the OpenID provider side of things? Or the Relying Party  
side of things?

> For instance, I am working with some people who would like to  
> create some
> sites that discuss openid topics, so what is/would be the policy on  
> things
> like a site named openidtopics.* or is that not even an issue?

You tell me what policy you'd want on this kind of thing, and more  
importantly, what process we should put in place by which policies  
like this get proposed, agreed on, an most importantly revised.

So far, Drummond is in favor of establishing a committee, which was  
one of my suggestions. Anybody else?

> Also, does anyone have a link to some of the original pages where  
> openid was
> first announced and released, I can't seem to find those.  
> Similarly, if
> someone has a timeline/outline of milestones in openid's evolution,  
> I would
> appreciate any links.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
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