[OpenID] Press Release

[Dick Hardt]

On 7-Feb-08, at 11:41 AM, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> If the Foundation has an intent or even a latent desire to have  
> organized realty brings its 1000+, forever-changing AX-style LOCAL  
> namespaces to the board for ratification when deploying openid2, it  
> ain't gonna happen.

The OpenID board does not vote on the specifications. The community  
does.
Please read the IPR Process so that you understand how things work.

>
> As a gesture of support by a vertical industry for the Foundation,  
> we could perhaps seek re-ratification of what we call our existing  
> "Standard Names" namespace, however?

The board does not ratify any specifications.

Additionally, the AX was intentionally designed so that ANYONE can  
define their own attributes in any DNS namespace they control without  
coordinating with anyone else.

If the properties you define might be useful to others, then you may  
want to advertise them so that other people could use them.

You will notice that there are no AX attributes defined at openid.net.

If this is _still_ confusing, we shold take this offline.

-- Dick

fyi: I find the 90% comment above somewhat insulting.