[OpenID] Privacy for contributors

[Eran Hammer-Lahav]

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EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Martin Atkins
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:31 PM
> To: general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Privacy for contributors
>
> 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/
>
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