[OpenID] [OpenID board] Bylaws on the Wiki

[Peter Williams]

Feels more like an application of cliamid - same idea as your tho.

mark all your wiki edits, so can tell the degree to which an open access wiki reflects the originator's intended content (before someone changed it, augmented it, etc).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of SitG Admin
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:04 PM
> To: Chris Messina
> Cc: general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] [OpenID board] Bylaws on the Wiki
>
> >I think we should endeavor to provide such transparency natively,
> >without forcing people to scrape and diff our content!
> >
> >So, I do agree that binding changes shouldn't be able to be made by
> >just anyway and that we should have a canonical location for the
> >bylaws, but I also think that transparency and editing history is
> >just as important.
>
> This sounds like something that could be hooked up through OpenID:
> log in, the RP at openid.net sends a hash (or version number) of the
> latest bylaws (hash would permit it to operate on that single source,
> without risking a failure if the secretary forgot to update "version
> number") through AX and the user's OP (logging in on their behalf to
> check this? I mean, if the OP can do it *anyway*, why not take
> advantage of that?) notifies the user when that user next uses their
> OP for *anything*.
>
> -Shade
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