[OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?

[Santosh Rajan]

You must be from Kantara? Because I really haven't said anything drastic
here. It was just a thought.


Paul Madsen wrote:
> 
> 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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