[OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?

[Kaliya *]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good question. I am not too sure about that either. But they seem pretty
> upbeat about welcoming new members and announcing new working groups. (i am
> on their mailing list).


Right - cause they are "good" at that kind of promotion, with like 5+
full-time-equivalent staff whose job it is to get attention for the org...
yeah.

They have lots of "new" working groups cause they are moving all work from
Liberty Alliance (Trade organization) over to the "new org". Look carefully
at who was not on board with the announcement - none of the web portal co's
involved in OpenID.  Not many people active in the identity community
actually blogged or commented about its formation or are now talking about
all the "new" activity there.

Activity continues to go on in Identity Commons working groups without much
fanfare but getting lots done (OpenID, Info Cards, OSIS, Project VRM, Pamela
Project, Higgins Project etc).  We just had a meeting here at Burton Group
Catalyst yesterday with OSIS (open source identity systems) that has done 5
major interops http://osis.idcommons.net in the last few years.

You might find this informative re: some of the water under the bridge (they
asked Identity Commons to merge with Liberty Alliance and form this new org
last summer)
http://wiki.idcommons.net/IDTBD_Summary

Having pointed you at this piece of history from last year, there are
dialogues about "everyone getting along" and representatives from OpenID
Foundation (Don the ED), Identity Commons (5 stewards), Information Card
Foundation (3+ folks)  and Kantara (Brett) were all at the OSIS meeting
yesterday.

-Kaliya



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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Kaliya * <identitywoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> After seeing all the activity and excitement at Kantara
>>
>>
>> "what excitement"?
>>
>>
>>
>>> and Open web the past
>>> few weeks, this place looks like a graveyard.
>>>
>>>
>>> SitG Admin wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>Hehe! Shade for once I am going to agree with you.
>>> >
>>> > Not my point, though. You say apathy; I see only the *appearance* of
>>> > inaction, and have no idea what work may be going on in private
>>> > Working Groups that I don't hear about; obviously Google has been
>>> > active on its own; finally, there are the separate communities in
>>> > which complementary work is being done. If it all feeds back into
>>> > OpenID eventually, we have little basis for complaint. We might hope
>>> > for more frequent progress updates, but I'm sure something will be
>>> > said when there is something to say ;)
>>> >
>>> > Meanwhile, we can use this time to work on our own projects.
>>> >
>>> > -Shade
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