[OpenID] OpenID; a single choice

[tom]

Hi Martin,

I would definitely be interested in starting such a group. Could you/the 
board announce when you have reached a point when you can facilitate 
this (along with instructions for group application)?

Tom



Martin Atkins wrote:
> tom wrote:
>   
>> OpenID is doing a fantastic job on specifications however it is (or some 
>> in the community are) hiding behind statements such as "It's all up to 
>> the website." [see reply to my original post by Stephen Gigante for 
>> source].  Well it is, but without the OpenID foundation setting down 
>> clear guidelines we have, in this case "button anarchy" which negatively 
>> affects OpenID.
>>
>>     
>
> To be clear, the OpenID Foundation doesn't itself author specifications, 
> or indeed guidelines.
>
> The OpenID Foundation exists to provide infrastructure in which 
> specification work can be carried out while ensuring that published 
> specifications are compliant with the stated IPR policy, and thus that 
> the completed specifications remain as open and free to implement as is 
> legally possible.
>
> If some folks would like to form an OpenID user experience, 
> accessibility or other such work group to author a set of guidelines as 
> you say, and if there is agreement from the community that this needs to 
> be done -- which I'm sure there would be -- then that work group could 
> be hosted by the Foundation, which provide a group mailing list and so 
> on. The only current barrier is that the mechanism for voting in new 
> work groups is still under development; the foundation board and 
> committees are currently working actively on this and there should be a 
> system in place shortly.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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