<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)">
<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.apple-style-span
{mso-style-name:apple-style-span;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page Section1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body bgcolor=white lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple>
<div class=Section1>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>+1 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>IMHO, I think the future of this kind of new “Identity gTLDs” depends
of the Domain Name Rules / Registration Policies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>(Your opinion can be an example of these rules…)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If it’s the same thing that “.name”, “.me” or .”com” = of course
= it’s already over! And frankly unnecessary!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>For well understand: “.openid” is not known for the end user = It
would be an invisible TLD, [A bit like .ARPA (Address and Routing Parameter
Area) or ENUM (Telephone Number Mapping)]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Imagine tomorrow if you can enter only “NATSAKIMURA” in your
favorite RP (no http://natsukimura.openid), exactly like i-names… but completely
“free”! Finally, always through the Registrar and ICANN… but this is another
debate! ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>So…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>-Snorri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
general-bounces@openid.net [mailto:general-bounces@openid.net] <b>De la part de</b>
Nat<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 26 septembre 2008 13:20<br>
<b>À :</b> board@openid.net<br>
<b>Cc :</b> <board@openid.net>; <general@openid.net><br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [OpenID] [OpenID board] ICANN - dotOpenID Has Found Its
First Sponsor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal>This looks very much like what has been discussed in XRI
area. Whatever happens, I hope the domain will be associated with a never
reused unique identifier and public key pair associated with it, and all the
resolution happens securely. <br>
<br>
=nat<span class=apple-style-span>@TOKYO via iPhone</span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>
On 2008/09/26, at 16:43, "Snorri" <<a
href="mailto:snorri@snorri.eu">snorri@snorri.eu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>
<div>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear
Everyone,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
project was confidential until now, but today we have just received
confirmation of a first sponsorship ($50,000.00). The sponsor has agreed to
participate in the project (as soon as they will have received the operational
file), and it is a good time to announce its existence to the whole Community.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
had already had the pleasure to announce this project and to discuss it briefly
with ICANN managers during the 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting, held
last June in Paris. The first feedback I received was very enthusiastic. People
are excited at the thought of launching a new gTLD: dotOpenID, “.OpenID.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
understand, this goes way beyond OpenID. It is the introduction of a new gTLD
dedicated to identity, a concept which has everyone concerned. It has been
talked about for several years… To this day, it is still uncertain under which
form it can materialize, be it .openid or .myID, xxxx… to this day, things are
still in flux.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Of
course, the possibility of using “OpenID” as a new extension of a domain name
opens wonderful prospects and very exciting; the new specifications
(onwards to OpenID3.0?) could for example include that……. and the unique
opportunity for cobranding – which would focus a lot of attention on OpenID –
it would be visible right there with the DNS/Domain names, since OpenID would
be an URL.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Of
course, in part this project becomes possible because of the new ICANN program <a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm</a>
aimed at simplifying all formalities necessary to become candidate, which are
objectively examined and accepted as long as they meet all the necessary
conditions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This
being said, a lot of questions still remain unanswered, for example the legal-technical
angle, the Business Plan or the type of entity which will manage this new
extension.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
tend to be in favor of a Non-Profit supporting this project, rather than a
business entity. This would in my view guarantee a more neutral position, in
particular in the absence of the rules I was alluding to earlier. This
Non-Profit, can be OIDF or another Foundation, especially created for this
project. The revenue generated could become an important source of income for
the development of OpenID, of the Open Web, and of digital ID…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
next phase (covering the next three months) is to gather a few thinking heads
(yours? :) ) and to think through all the possibilities…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If
all possible obstacles can be lifted, the process could start as soon as
January 2009.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>After
that, we would have to wait between 8 and 14/18 months to the see the first:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-
[YourCompanyName].OpenID – To isolate the SSO from each RP (e.g.: Plaxo.OpenID)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-
[YourName].OpenID – To be able to have your own URL, managed by your favorite
OP, while remaining free to change it (e.g.: Snorri.OpenID)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-
[YourProvider].OpenID – This would create a simple and strong URL, with the OP
you trust (e.g.: My.OpenID, Yahoo.OpenID...)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All
news concerning this project will be presented here, at <a
href="http://www.dotOpenID.org">www.dotOpenID.org</a> (a wiki has been opened,
but at this time there is still very little material on line)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please
give us your opinion, and become a part of this sensational project…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My
thanks to you all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-Snorri</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'>
<div>
<p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>
board mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:board@openid.net">board@openid.net</a><br>
<a href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</body>
</html>