[OpenID] Authorized Voting for Email Like Identifiers

[Santosh Rajan]

Thanks. I wanted to hear this from a board member. I hope I hear from other
board members too.


Luke Shepard wrote:
> 
> The foundation board is responsible for promoting OpenID and protecting
> the intellectual property rights associated with it. It is explicitly NOT
> in charge of deciding the OpenID spec.
> 
> As for why you may find a cold response to calls for a vote, I quote David
> Clark:
> 
>     "We reject: kings, presidents and voting. We believe in: rough
> consensus and running code."
> 
> I think the rough consensus on this list is that we should not view OpenID
> and email as competition but try to make them interoperate. As Shade
> suggests, they serve different but overlapping purposes.
> 
> As for running code, here's some that's been talked about a lot:
>     http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/
> 
> On 6/9/09 9:42 AM, "Santosh Rajan" <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would like to hear an answer to this post from the OpenID foundation
> board.
> 
> Santosh Rajan wrote:
>>
>>
>> A Vote authorized by the foundation must be conducted to decide whether
>> Email Like identifiers will be in the core spec of OpenID 2.1.
>> If that is not possible the foundation must officially announce whether
>> Email like identifiers will be in the Core Spec of 2.1.
>>
>> This will greatly help people decide, how and on what to spend their time
>> and effort, and will also ensure that their time and effort does not go
>> to
>> waste.
>>
>> I also see an urgency in this matter because ideally I would like to see
>> 2.1 come out soon because there will be Wave servers being released by
>> the
>> last quarter of the year. If we can have 2.1 before that we will be in a
>> position to offer OpenID as an alternative. Otherwise I am sure XMPP
>> authentication will grow into a Federated authentication.
>>
>> Here is a link to show the latest plans of Google Wave.
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1
>> http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1
>>
>>
>>
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