[OpenID] What can your OpenID Foundation do for you?

[Peter Williams]

For about 7 months we have been emailing openids to folk. Once a member of the public identifies him/herself to a realtor and has signed a legal agency contract (in the us), the user may supply the realtor with an email address. Once the realtor nominates the email address for access to the realtor's portal (think "ma.gnolia" page), rapattoni emails the public person a openid (url) on behalf of the realtor collectives that have sought the service.

The foundation would best serve me, as a (non dues-paying) community member, if it could play some kind of (non commercial) broker role, in which it connects up (possibly commercial) ops and our client portal openids. 8d love to create a program in which n ops now go offer their services to all these members of the public their particular service, asserting the realty openid (via delegation)  to the realty portal, whilst presenting their own branded openid for users to apply on the op site.

The foundation would be finding the ops their customers and enabling users to even more easily leverage a realty specific openid, on a us realtor's networking portal.

Though I couched this brokering role in the terms of realty example, it should exist for many other professional associations, generally.

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:40 PM
To: openid-general List <general at openid.net>
Subject: [OpenID] What can your OpenID Foundation do for you?

The OpenID Foundation was created to serve the interests of the OpenID  
community. Being a member of the foundation's board, I believe that  
should reach out as often as we can to the community and ask you "what  
can we do for you"? This is particularly important since we have  
corporate members on the board.

And you should of course hold us accountable for doing it.

So: What can, must, should, could we do for you? ;-)

Thanks,




Johannes.


Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.