[OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?
Paul Madsen
paulmadsen at rogers.com
Thu Jul 30 16:18:45 UTC 2009
of course the 'getting along' would be easier if there weren't this sort
of veiled (and inaccurate) jab every once in a while.
paul
Santosh Rajan wrote:
> 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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>>>>> Santosh Rajan
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