Thanks Peter,<br><br>Without knowing more precisely what you are referencing, what I would offer is the clarification that virtually nothing I'm aware of in the Foundation's statements or the news should be construed as applying to/focusing on private or proprietary community environments. This reference to community adoption and such is, as far as I am aware, entirely about *public communities* and it is unnecessary to construe it more broadly than that. Moreover, I believe that is what Dick is saying as well.<br>
<br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2008 11:41 AM, Peter Williams <<a href="mailto:pwilliams@rapattoni.com">pwilliams@rapattoni.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The mission statement and the associated journalism came across to me as focusing attention (because of the addition of several new Board members with this specific focus, the article claims) on ensuring openid adoption communities SHOULD NOT BE exploiting the built-in extensibility point of the technical protocol. Or, if they do so by themselves (because the protocol design infact provides for such), they are not cooperating "appropriately" if they define or use extensions without the blessing/ratification of the OpenID Foundation.<br>
<br>its a matter of tone - which is what mission statements are all about, of course.<br><br>-----------------<br><br>Dick expresses that this is not the intention of the Foundation - which I 90% believe. However Foundation PRs needs to be more sensitive.<br>
<br>If the Foundation has an intent or even a latent desire to have organized realty brings its 1000+, forever-changing AX-style LOCAL namespaces to the board for ratification when deploying openid2, it ain't gonna happen.<br>
<br>As a gesture of support by a vertical industry for the Foundation, we could perhaps seek re-ratification of what we call our existing "Standard Names" namespace, however?<br><br><br>________________________________<br>
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