[OpenID] Windows Live ID OpenID CTP Status Update (August 2009)

[Peter Williams]

So the right place for this is http://public.cxo.com/conferences/index.html?conferenceID=51. Unfortunately, its coming up very fast. Its back to being a small conference, of thought leaders rather than programming engineers, who are groping to find the right balance for the vendor-led identity infrastructure. But, once persuaded, the folks have the power to execute, integrate, pilot etc.

You have to be very personable to get a hearing for a pitch; but I don't think you have any problem there!

Bring some political ammunition tho, if you come. To get some bit of technology adopted, youll have to scratch someone's back so they get what they want. What *I* want is harmony between OASIS and W3C over XRI/XDI/XRD, so we can ALL leave dns behind us. Do some bridging there, and I bet trustworthiness will go way off the scale.

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From: hjs at bblfish.net [mailto:hjs at bblfish.net] On Behalf Of Story Henry
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 2:57 AM
To: Peter Williams
Cc: openid-general at lists.openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Windows Live ID OpenID CTP Status Update (August 2009)

On 31 Aug 2009, at 11:38, Peter Williams wrote:

> We are probably too far distant from openid to use this list
> further. Is there a vibrant community of participants on another,
> better suited? The more diverse the opinion set, the better,
> usually. Good standards are a mix of political compromises and
> technology.

Well there is the foaf-protocols mailing list
        http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-protocols

There may be other lists I should introduce this too. But I think in
helps if I first give a real presentation to a group of people live.
It helps get people's intuitions lined up. Perhaps you have ideas of
conferences I should present too that would make a big difference. I
will be going to the Identity Interest group in November to present.

> If the handoff from ssl layer 4 (ssl record layer stuff) to app
> layer 7 (which does  cert stuff) to CGI/servlet interface is now
> open in some of the major containers, there is lots that can be done
> to insert non-DNS based trust models at this interception point: for
> openid implementations, too. This is worth studying, for lots of
> reasons; since its "deployable".

yes. And we have working examples too. We just need more of them and
more useful ones to get this going.

Henry

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