[OpenID] Shade's questions - Vision/Hope for OpenID

[SitG Admin]

I could have posted all my questions for the candidates in one 
thread, but if we all did that then we'd all be terribly confused 
looking at subject lines like "Two questions for candidates" and 
"Three questions for candidates" and not knowing about which 
question(s) we were going to read.

Full disclosure: I don't have a vote, so candidates don't stand to 
lose/gain MY vote regardless of how they answer (or ignore) these 
questions.

I understand that elections are for the community board members, 
because corporate board members paid their way instead - megacorps 
really, because they're rich enough to afford the $50,000 for a 
Sustaining Membership, annually. If a bunch of smaller companies 
banded together to fund a lobbyist to represent their collective 
interests, this would be somewhere between an individual and 
corporate position - their interests would *generally* be "good for 
corporations", but not looking for the good of any single, *specific* 
corporation. This might result in votes aimed at turning OpenID into 
something exclusively handed out by the corporations, perhaps small 
one as well as large but definitely prohibited to individuals.

How would your interests differ from such a minicorp lobbyist?

What is your understanding of the potential and promise OpenID holds, 
and what do you see as the "rough edges" that need to be sanded away 
from this idea? How do you see it fitting into the future, and what 
role do you hope it will play in the grand dance of many interacting 
technologies?

You can answer with ideal (made-up) use-case stories, narrative 
style, if you wish; bow to reality if you feel you must, but I 
anticipate that other developments may take place in available 
technology which will make possible that which we would not even take 
seriously, now; so, I want to know not just what you understand 
OpenID to be (and what is incompatible with your vision of it), and 
how you hope to see it used in future, but what your dream is: what 
you would go with, if a miracle occurred and it became possible.

I would like to see "user-centric" and/or "decentralized" factor into 
your answer (as a "rough edge" if nothing else), but that's just what 
*I'm* hoping for - this question is about what's important to *you*, 
and what you've been thinking about.

-Shade