[OpenID] Press Release

[David Recordon]

I'd have to agree with Dick.  I thought we've been very clear (such as  
in http://openid.net/2008/02/07/evolving-the-openid-foundation-board/)  
that the Foundation does not make specification decisions by saying  
"While the OpenID Foundation serves a stewardship role around the  
community’s intellectual property, the Foundation’s board itself does  
not make any decisions about the specifications the community is  
collaboratively building", but the feedback that we as a community are  
not being clear enough is useful.

Thanks,
--David

On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Dick Hardt wrote:

>
>
> 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.
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