[OpenID] Fwd: ID Community and Berkman Center

[Dave Kearns]

Yadis was an outgrowth of the meetings between OpenID, LID, Sxip and i-names
started on IIW-Berkeley, continued at Berkman and coalesced at IIW-Mt. View,
where it was decided to use the "OpenID" name for the emerging
technology....

-dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net
> [mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net]On Behalf Of Brian
> Hamlin
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:28 AM
> To: openid-general at lists.openid.net
> Subject: [OpenID] Fwd: ID Community and Berkman Center
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:53 PM, Michael Sippey wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not familiar with what's happening with John Clippinger, but I can
> >> attest to the roots of OpenID (the spec), which were with Brad
> >> Fitzpatrick in a Six Apart conference room in SF back in '05.  At the
> >> time we were developing vox.com and trying to solve the problem of
> >> making sure that LiveJournal users didn't have to create yet another
> >> username and password to sign in to comment on Vox (and vice versa).
> >>
> >> I know there was a ton of politics around the different identity
> >> communities back then (Sxip!  Ping!  Etc.!  (and obviously the
> >> politics carry on to this day)) but the beauty of working with Brad
> >> was watching him focus intently on solving a challenging technical
> >> problem with elegant solutions, community politics be damned.
> >>
> >> </delurk>
> >
> > Hi Michael-
> >
> >   yes, and....
> >
> >   As I recall, it was not at all clear that there would be one
> > standard that would rise.. Yadis/LID also had the same claim to a
> > simple, elegant technical solution.. Sxip was working very closely
> > with Microsoft meanwhile, with Redmond stinging after their very
> > public fail with Passport.. and then there was Higgins at Berkman..
> > far afield was Drumon Reed with XRI...
> >
> >   Each one of these camps had their own reasons why they were going to
> > be it, but, like a currency of a sovereign nation, everyone in the
> > back of their heads knew that a partial standard was no standard at
> > all.. The potential for the victor was enormous! and yet, there had to
> > be compromise...
> >
> >   Its easy to say in hindsight that Brad Fitzpatrick did this.. but,
> > there is another side to it, too, that has to do with bringing all
> > these parties together and hashing something out.. That did indeed
> > happen, which brought us to today...
> >
> >   best regards from Berkeley
> >     -Brian
> >
> >
>
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