[OpenID] Press Release

[Dick Hardt]

Peter

I would imagine the intent of the phrase is to keep the core of  
OpenID from becoming proprietary.

I would encourage you to define new properties in your own namespace  
for your sub-community. If there is a reason why they need to be  
proprietary -- ie you want to control who can use them, I don't see  
that as evil. I would expect that many of the new properties would be  
of interest to all members in the sub-community.

The OpenID Foundation does not determine the protocol. The protocol  
is determined by the community. Extensions and enhancements are  
determined by the community. Anyone of course can write their own  
extensions, and they can be proprietary. They just won't be able to  
be called part of OpenID if they are not approved according to the  
OpenID Intellectual Property Process.

	http://openid.net/ipr/OpenID_Process_Document_ 
(Final_Clean_20071221).pdf

-- Dick

On 7-Feb-08, at 7:52 AM, Peter Williams wrote:

> 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).
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: general-bounces at openid.net on behalf of Bill Washburn
> Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 7:26 AM
> To: OpenID List
> 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.
>
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