[OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?

[Santosh Rajan]

Nice to know there is dialogue about "everyone getting along". It would be so
much better if "everyone where getting along as one". Easier said than done
I guess.



Kaliya *-2 wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Kaliya * <identitywoman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
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