[OpenID] OpenID business cards?

[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

I can see where you are coming from.

I'm not a huge fan of the business card idea as it promotes some OP's over
others in what is supposed to be an equal, open, distributed system (10
Passport's rather than 1). Not sure what the aggregate legal disclaimer
would look like.

On the other hand I can see why it is useful as it saves the person entering
the domain extension every time! It also looks quite professional and the
standard look across all sites would be great.

The quicker this is integrated into all browsers as a toolbar and the OpenID
login box for each RP can work with the OP set in your toolbar the better
(any pointers on this folks?). I can imagine you enter the login name or
even simpler the textbox login is replaced by a drop down of your registered
identities (similar to the business card concept, but YOU define the card).

Regards,
Steven
http://weblivz.openid.org

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From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
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Sent: 25 May 2008 00:15
To: david at sixapart.com
Cc: general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] OpenID business cards?

>Hey Shade,
>I have to say I'm a bit confused.  Where are you seeing this legal
disclaimer?

On the imagined business card?
"AOL and the AOL logo are trademarks of AOL, LLC. Yahoo! and the 
Yahoo! logo are trademarks of Yahoo! Incorporated. LiveJournal and 
the LiveJournal logo are trademarks of LiveJournal, Inc. Flickr and 
the Flickr logo are trademarks of Yahoo! Incorporated."

I could go on, but you get the idea. If a business card had a legal 
disclaimer for each name/logo it was advertising, that disclaimer 
could rapidly begin taking up a lot of space. Thus the desire for a 
disclaimer that would be short and never increase in length:

"Each name and logo shown above is trademarked to their respective
companies."
Looking at a similar (but far more extensive) disclaimer at 
dollinfo.com, I have to wonder whether such a short statement would 
suffice. Maybe the question should be, would a URL where the full 
legal disclaimer can be found, suffice?

But you may have been wondering why I thought a legal disclaimer was 
necessary at all (or, "Where am I seeing the existing legal 
disclaimers on which I base this need for such text on the card?"), 
and while not all OP's have *registered* a trademark, this isn't (to 
my knowledge) *necessary* for a trademark to exist. Merely using it 
commercially would be sufficient. And if, as a sheerly hypothetical 
example, I begin promoting my business by capitalizing on the 
familiarity potential customers have with an OP (getting them to 
associate my business with that OP, in their minds), I imagine the 
legal team (if any) at that OP might have a few choice words to say 
about it.

Or perhaps I'm being overly cautious about this sort of thing. It's 
also free advertising for the OP :)

-Shade
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