[OpenID] Step2 (was: Musing on FaceBook, OpenID and the next mountain to climb)

[Dick Hardt]

On 16-Sep-08, at 3:39 PM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Ernst
> <jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us> wrote:
>> I had not seen that one.
>> Can I ask why this work has not been done under the umbrella of the  
>> OIDF? It
>> appears that 3 of the 4 listed editors are / work for OpenID  
>> Foundation
>> board members.
>> (But to be clear, this is only one of the several (many?) things  
>> that I
>> think would need to happen ...)
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 15:04 , Eric Sachs wrote:
>
> We are working under the assumption that having a proof-of-concept
> implementation (better, several interoperable implementations by
> different parties) would be a good sanity-check that the proposal is
> sound and not just wishful thinking.
>
> We have every intention of asking the OpenID foundation to sponsor
> this initiative in the not-distant time-frame.

If you were to ask to make it a working group, then it would be  
covered by the OpenID IPR, and would follow the process that was  
developed for creating specs.

Are there reasons why the group did not do that?

David: I see you are involved, and you worked on creating the OpenID  
process. Can you enlighten the rest of us why this is not an OIDF WG?

-- Dick