[OpenID] OpenID Trademark Issues

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

Something like this was suggested various times. You idea will fall on 
(almost) deaf ears. However there is an interest in something like this 
provided by a third party perhaps.

Joseph Holsten wrote:
> 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.
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Signer:      Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.
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