[OpenID] Privacy for contributors

[Martin Atkins]

John Bradley wrote:
> 
> I have come to accept that contributing in these forums requires me to 
> give up my anonymity to an extent.  While it is reasonable for OASIS to 
> publish my email it would not be reasonable for them to publish my home 
> address.   Unless I am missing something I don't think the OIDF is 
> considering that sort of disclosure.
> 

Actually, as a point of interest several IPR agreements are posted 
publically on openid.net[1], including my own. Since I signed as an 
individual rather than as an employee of a company my home address was 
on my IPR agreement as published.

Now I've moved to SF that is of course not my home address anymore, but 
I just wanted to note that there are situations where you apparently are 
expected to share your home address publically.

I must admit that I'm not sure what the criteria are for having your IPR 
agreement posted on the public site: most of the agreements there are 
from the companies that employ (or at least did employ, at the time of 
signing) board members, but "Netnamia" is on there and as far as I'm 
aware they have not employed any board members.

I hope that's not actually the list of *all* executed IPR agreements, 
because if so the fact that we've only got nine non-assertion agreements 
is quite depressing; in practice, that means that only eight companies 
and one individual are actually able to contribute to specifications.

[1] http://openid.net/ipr/Non-Assertion-Agreement/executed/