[OpenID] Weighing In on TechCrunch's "Is OpenID Being Exploited By The Big Internet Companies?"

Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) eddy_nigg at startcom.org
Mon Mar 24 22:09:41 UTC 2008


Dick Hardt:
>
> It is a shortcoming of the tech. The Foundation is there to promote 
> OpenID and to facilitate the development of specs -- NOT to develop 
> the specs themselves.
>
> I'm not saying the Big Vendors should solve it by themselves,  but 
> that they should direct some of their engineers to work with the 
> community to solve it for the community as a whole.
>
+1 Much in favor of that...or should I say, that I don't care as long as 
this is done within the community framework.

However I believe that there is some separation between the technical 
specs and a RP-OP network / federation / community / 
standard-of-operation or however you want to call that...

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