[OpenID] XRI TC - An Outsiders perspective

[Santosh Rajan]

Peter Williams wrote:
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> Anything produced by OASIS will tend to be complicated in its spec: its
> why it exists .. to do engineered solutions.
> 
> OASIS methods contrast with W3C design approaches -- which use science
> rather than engineering methods. The nature of science is that it
> inherently leaves lots of open questions, allowing the space needed
> solving crypto-political issues facing non-computers. It thus tends to be
> good for highly-scalable, civilian systems. The nature of engineering is
> that it necessarily must be complete, and thus its long and tedious to
> read. It tends to be good for military/safety systems.
> 
> Id love OpenID to continue being what it is: itself - neither W3C nor
> OASIS dominated. So far, David and co have done a good job on that - which
> speaks to their political savvy. There is no point being in the middle of
> a W3C/OASIS (science vs engineering) culture war. Neither W3C nor OASIS
> are particularly user-centric design cultures (despite all their marketing
> to the contrary). Openid set out to be user centric, and  found synergy
> with the best UCI bits of OASIS (XRI/XRD) with the best UCI bits of W3C
> (URLs). Despite the many pressures of crypto/corporate/standards politics,
> its retained its own identity.
> 
> 


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