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The less-than-200-members voting community should be pretty familiar with most of the candidates at this point. There are very few names on the list that are complete strangers, never participated in the conversation, etc. To suggest that whether my blog supports OpenID or not carries such a significant importance for my ability to serve on the board and get things done is absurd. If you are not aware of my contribution, my writings, or my personality, you are probably not going to vote for me. And for those who want to learn more, I included my blog in my nomination statement.<BR>
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I picked my blog product (TypePad) based on features that are important to me as a writer, and as such I care much less about using OpenID for comments as much as writing about technologies I find interesting. To be honest, I don’t even know if TypePad supports OpenID comments or not at this point. I think it should, but lack of it will not make me move to another vendor.<BR>
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There are two questions for people to consider before voting:<BR>
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1. What is the role of the OpenID board, that is significantly different from the role of the community? If they are the same, we don’t need both.<BR>
2. Based on your answer to #1, who do you think has the right experience and free-time to execute this board purpose?<BR>
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I’ll answer both questions in a separate post.<BR>
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On 12/11/08 11:39 AM, "Peter Williams" <<a href="pwilliams@rapattoni.com">pwilliams@rapattoni.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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Fair enough, Chris.<BR>
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Folks!<BR>
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If you were a nominee of the final ~5 and you see this, please indicate the candidate’s blogsite URL for him/her. Or, point to *<B>any</B>* site the individual is closely associated with, that shows the person is actually practicing reliance on openids from any OP, per the UCI doctrine.<BR>
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If you are a reader and have any means to contact of the final ~5 and you see this, please encourage the candidate to post his/her blogsite URL. Or, perhaps have a nominee with elementary web skills do it for him/her or just make one for him/her (the John McCain type computer-unware candidate, presumably).<BR>
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Once I have a little more of the list, I’ll then report on what limits the folks are actually placing on their acceptance of https OpenIDs. This may be quite telling about their wider affiliations, who they see themselves as associating with beyond the pure openid community, who they find themselves unable to associate with, who they see as suitable for advising on the assurance topics associated with https openid, etc.<BR>
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Voters can then evaluate the candidate based on issue positions, their associations and their chosen non-associations ( in some cases),and whose counsel they use (particular on the very difficult topic of relying on https OpenIDs).<BR>
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In many cases, Ill guess that the candidate may well be unaware they are making implied statement of association or policy (given the complex nature of the https OpenID). This lack of experience in the area of assurance and governance may well be telling about the candidate’s likely counsel to the Board on the topic. It may also inform about the person’s strong opinions on the topic, as reflected in what they can be seen to actually accept … when making personal acts of https OpenID reliance.<BR>
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10 more days of this…<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> Chris Messina [<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com</a>] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:59 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> Peter Williams<BR>
<B>Cc:</B> Paul Madsen; <a href="general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [OpenID] Voting confidentiality<BR>
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Just to put this request in perspective, not all the candidates are active contributors to this mailing list; indeed it seems that some of the candidates actually spend more time OFF of mailing lists than they do on -- so finding another means of gauging the candidates' commitment to OpenID besides a query on this list might be appropriate -- just to make sure that we don't end up summarily arriving at a judgment when those in question simply weren't aware that they were being judged.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Peter Williams <<a href="pwilliams@rapattoni.com">pwilliams@rapattoni.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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