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Johannes Ernst:
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<pre wrap="">In defense of JanRain, I'd say that as the OpenID Foundation, so far
we have given insufficient guidance on which domain names or product
names are okay and which aren't.
In defense of the foundation, I'd say that we are only a few steps in
the process of obtaining the trademark registrations that gives us the
power to actually mean what we say (which is why we haven't said
much...)
So among friends, I'd like to encourage JanRain to perhaps find
another really cool domain name *before* lots of people use it and
hard-code their links to it -- after all, we'd all hate having to rip
it out once it is really adopted by many sites ... and I'm sure we all
agree that the resources of the OpenID Foundation as well as the
OpenID community should be spent on better things than on (avoidable)
trademark issues.
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Not sure if you can enforce that. As long as it doesn't say only
"OpenID" I belive it's not enforceable at all. Then what about spread<b>openid</b>.org,
my<b>openid</b>.com, <b>openid</b>.org, <b>openid</b>.yahoo.com, <span
class="a"><b>openid</b>enabled.com, </span><span class="a"><b>openid</b>directory.com,
</span><span class="a"><b>openid</b>.sun.com, </span><span class="a"><b>openid</b>.cn,
</span><span class="a"><b>openid</b>france.fr, </span><span class="a"><b>openid</b>.pl,
</span><span class="a"><b>openid</b>.trustbearer.com, </span><span
class="a"><b>openid</b>source.org</span><br>
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BTW, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openid.net/">http://openid.net/</a> shows a logo with content OpenID.net and no
trademark symbols at all ® or ™....this is not enforcing trademarks at
all!!<br>
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