[OpenID] More on the Visa analogy (another question-set for candidates)

Chris Messina chris.messina at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 21:34:42 UTC 2008


Johannes, please note that the Strategy page is now available at:
https://wiki.openid.net/Strategy

Chris

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Johannes Ernst <jernst+openid.net@
netmesh.us> wrote:

> On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:03, SitG Admin wrote:
>
>  Have you consciously avoided "politics" during this election? (Answer for
>> however YOU define politics; if in the affirmative, please explain what you
>> understand politics to be.)
>>
>
> So far, the OIDF board hasn't been very political -- which has been one of
> the great things about it, and I hope we can keep it that way. So I'm not
> surprised that the elections aren't very political either. Regardless how
> you define "politics" ;-)
>
>  What questions have been asked, that you know of offhand? Which questions,
>> if any, did you NOT answer? Per question, explain WHY you did not answer it
>> - i.e., the answer could have hurt your vote count, you didn't know the
>> answer, you didn't see any need to even address the issue, etcetera.
>>
>
> I think I skipped some where I was basically in agreement with everybody
> else and the issue did not seem to be contentious. No need to fill
> everybody's inbox with long missives saying "I agree". I may have missed
> some buried inside some of the longer threads; that's a "may" because by
> definition, I don't know ;-) I'm hoping for somebody to insist if they
> really wanted a particular question answered.
>
>  Were there any questions that you are STILL thinking about? Please be
>> up-front with whether your silence on any questions has been due to not
>> wanting to speak until you have come to any sort of conclusion, or you have
>> already made up your mind but simply haven't said yet what it is that you
>> *do* believe.
>>
>
> There are a ton of questions whose answers are unclear, or where there are
> multiple competing answers. This list here contains many of them in some
> fashion:
>        http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Strategy
>
> Many of them depend on how the new board will organize itself, by which
> principles it decides to operate, and how it decides to interact with the
> local chapters and the community. If elected, what I may or may not believe
> there is less important than what consensus we may or may not be able to
> forge. I believe I have outlined my basic point of view earlier.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Johannes.
>
>
> Johannes Ernst
> NetMesh Inc.
>
>
>
>  http://netmesh.info/jernst
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