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Peter Williams:
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">First, this was apparently
not a Foundation-led initiative, discussed before launch through WGs
and having gone through at least some consensus processes deciding on
technical specs. Its was a pre-Foundation-days evangelist-grade
activity, apparently, where consensus was established (if actually
any) using non Foundation channels. This suggest the Foundation process
is not working well in the US branch, since.. why was this NOT first
put through the emerging processes and the associated IPR controls
(much like the openid+cardspace stuff is doing)?</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">Second, perhaps the
Foundation's immaturity and "unmanaged" approach in determining the
priority of issues is itself a bit to blame, since it evidently just
can NOT focus on the non-usability of the dominant OpenID experience to
date. Various dogmatic positions are oft repeated, and reinforced, like
a religious mantra. Perhaps one has to use such shots across the bow,
to get attention and put issues on the table.</font></div>
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There is certainly something in what you say...I think that's perhaps a
quite correct analysis about the current state of the OpenID
foundation. Interesting!<br>
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