[OpenID] Q&A: Who gets to vote?

[Peter Williams]

I suspect he is serious. And, woe betide anyone who doesn't use the openid website as the push/promotion point.

Not sure why this position is so important. I suspect it's just one person mental model of where "appropriate" competition lies, to "best serve" the community. As such, Ill guess that its just a personal viewpoint - as such views on "competition management" usually vary, widely.

AS you say, 99.9% of the internet uses the opposite model of promoting code implementation, and always has. There are 100s of SSL implementations, often variations of openssl and the older SSL library from Consensus. Sun and Microsoft SSL code add lots of value to the functional libraries (around OS/middleware assurance). Microsoft's SSL architecture for windows/.NET is very cute, in particular, and allows for hardware acceleration/control at the ciphersuite level (not the cipher primitives level). This nicely allows hardware session managers to add "session management" assurance, in addition to providing the usual cryptomodule assurances delivered by traditional HSMs with MIPS acceleration chips.  All this is excellent value add, and differentiates windows from the openssl you get for free in cygwin.


-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Hans Granqvist
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:02 AM
To: Dick Hardt
Cc: OpenID General
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Q&A: Who gets to vote?

> As per your comment about implementations -- it is a disservice to the
> community to develop multiple libraries for the same platform/
> language. Efforts are duplicated, code features and quality are lower
> then they would be if the different groups were to work together --
> and it is confusing to developers as to which one to use.

Yeah, let's forget all this about "keeping the specifications open and
compete on implementation" that has driven most of internet innovation.

(Dick, surely you're not serious... right?)

Hans
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