[OpenID] Press Release

[Bill Washburn]

Peter--

Could you restate your concern, pleasae.  What is it specifically you
see/believe OIDF is declaring war on?

thanks,
-bill


On Feb 7, 2008 9:47 AM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com> wrote:

> I'm a lone voice in realty *for* Openid adoption - because I saw reality
> in its design claims to be fundamentally de-centralized in its _operational_
> web-management model, unlike the Liberty websso protocols. This property is
> required, if a web-scale technology is to get adopted in the mostly
> de-centralized organized US realty culture.
>
> The dominant news-reported statement so far is.. OpenID Foundation
> declares war on proprietary extensions to openid, and that's what the new
> board members joined to accomplish.
> http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9866802-36.html?tag=nefd.top
>
> That war is likely to undermine the very argument about openid philosophy
> that I'd been using to get adoption traction - that organized, backroom
> realty could keep its necessary private-namespace handling while staying "in
> keeping" with openid community's de-centralized management values (if not
> actually "extolling" its values.)
>
>
>
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