[OpenID] OpenID Trademark Issues

[Joseph Holsten]

Johannes Ernst wrote:
> As many of you are already aware, the OpenID Foundation recently
> chartered a trademark committee. This committee is tasked with
> defining policies related to the trademarks (and perhaps other kinds
> of "marks") held (or to be held) by the OpenID Foundation, including:
>  - what the trademarks stand for
>  - how the trademarks are used and not used by the OpenID Foundation
> itself, and related to work facilitated by the OpenID Foundation such
> as protocol development
>  - how the trademarks are licensed (or not) to third parties (e.g.
> in product names)

What about a certification process? It would be particularly useful to
know that an OP truly provides services that interop. It would also be
nice to have a validation service for RPs.
This implies two tiers of marks, one for self validators and another
paid cert process. Of course, there is the question of certifying
implementations or their respective OP services themselves.