[OpenID] On the OpenID trademark

[Johannes Ernst]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 19:46, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:

> My 2¢ on this:
>
>> 1. we need to define the requirements that a product must meet before
>> it is allowed to use the OpenID trademark, such as the specifications
>> that it needs to conform to
>
> I would say that anything implementing, documenting, or discussing
> technologies outlined at <http://openid.net/> is fine.  A news site
> about OpenID with no login of any kind should still qualify to
> callitself openidnews.com or similar.

Is that sufficient? If I posted the description of a toaster at  
openid.net (it's a wiki after all, I could), does that mean I get to  
call it OpenID?

>
>> 2. we need to define a process by which the requirements evolve over
>> time (e.g. old specs are obsoleted or evolved, new specs are added  
>> etc.)
>
> Probably up to the foundation/community when the time comes.  A public
> policy document should exist which can be edited to meet this need.
> An announcement on this list of a major change to said page would be
> required to alert mark users to the change.