[OpenID] Press Release

[Peter Williams]

What does this mean?
 
"OpenID was always intended to be a decentralized sign-on system, so it's fantastic to join a foundation committed to keeping it free and unencumbered by proprietary extensions." 
 
If I want for my sub-community to define my own namespace in the AX protocol (as the technology allows), am I an evil "proprietary extension maker"?
 
If I want to define my own tags for use the the extensible XRD, am I an evil...
 
Can only the OpenID Foundation use all those extension points in the protocol?
 
Unlike SSL (which allows for privately defined extensions), and unlike X.509 (which allows for privately defined extensions), in OpenID culture will there be can be allowance for privately defined extensions?
 
I think we need an explicit mechanism for denoting which extensions are privately-defined (and which therefore have community blessing for their creation and use in the defined sub-community). 

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From: general-bounces at openid.net on behalf of Bill Washburn
Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 7:26 AM
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Subject: [OpenID] Press Release


FYI...

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=818650




SOURCE: OpenID Foundation

 <http://openid.net/foundation>  	 	
Feb 07, 2008 09:00 ET

Technology Leaders Join OpenID Foundation to Promote Open Identity Management on the Web


OpenID Foundation to Support Internet User Single Sign-On Technology


CORVALLIS, OR--(Marketwire - February 7, 2008) - The OpenID Foundation <http://openid.net/foundation>  today announced that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG <http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=GOOG> ), IBM (NYSE: IBM <http://www.ibm.com/investor/> ), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT <http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=MSFT> ), VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN <http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=VRSN> ) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO <http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=YHOO> ) have joined as its first corporate board members.