[OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?

Santosh Rajan santrajan at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 06:11:03 UTC 2009


Hehe! Shade for once I am going to agree with you.
Why do we have a chairman? Isnt he supposed to be leading the flock and
showing the way?
And what about the rest of the board. This is the "coldest" board I have
ever seen.
I think Eran Hammer should have been the chairman of the board! I wonder why
he disappeared from here 2 yrs back. (I have seen some posts from him from
2007).


SitG Admin wrote:
> 
>>There is no sign of the "STD mechanism" coming soon.
> 
> Perhaps it will arrive after Chris Messina's "Policy Expression 
> Extension" passes ;)
> 
>>Apathy on the part of the OpenID Foundation.
> 
> Inaction, or so it may appear; timely, though?
> 
>>Half the Identity folk have moved on to Kantara Initiative.
>>The Other half to the Open Web foundation.
>>XRI TC has tied itself in knots.
>>And the hilarious part is that there are folk involved in all these three
>>foundations!
> 
> Sounds like good separation of duties to me. If the rest of us can 
> still interop (and work is still being done that *needs* to be done 
> before we can move forward), it doesn't really matter where most of 
> the various communities is doing that work.
> 
>>No idea were the rest of us should bail out to!?
> 
> If the development of OpenID were to halt now, I think it would be 
> Federated implementations that found themselves hardest hit; small, 
> independent operators such as myself (working with libraries already 
> distributed "in the wild") might not even notice.
> 
> -Shade
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