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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The foundation board is responsible for promoting OpenID and protecting the intellectual property rights associated with it. It is explicitly NOT in charge of deciding the OpenID spec.<BR>
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As for why you may find a cold response to calls for a vote, I quote David Clark:<BR>
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“</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>We reject: kings, presidents and <B>voting</B>. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.”<BR>
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I think the rough consensus on this list is that we should not view OpenID and email as competition but try to make them interoperate. As Shade suggests, they serve different but overlapping purposes.<BR>
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As for running code, here’s some that’s been talked about a lot:<BR>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/">http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/</a><BR>
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On 6/9/09 9:42 AM, "Santosh Rajan" <<a href="santrajan@gmail.com">santrajan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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I would like to hear an answer to this post from the OpenID foundation<BR>
board.<BR>
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Santosh Rajan wrote:<BR>
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> A Vote authorized by the foundation must be conducted to decide whether<BR>
> Email Like identifiers will be in the core spec of OpenID 2.1.<BR>
> If that is not possible the foundation must officially announce whether<BR>
> Email like identifiers will be in the Core Spec of 2.1.<BR>
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> This will greatly help people decide, how and on what to spend their time<BR>
> and effort, and will also ensure that their time and effort does not go to<BR>
> waste.<BR>
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> I also see an urgency in this matter because ideally I would like to see<BR>
> 2.1 come out soon because there will be Wave servers being released by the<BR>
> last quarter of the year. If we can have 2.1 before that we will be in a<BR>
> position to offer OpenID as an alternative. Otherwise I am sure XMPP<BR>
> authentication will grow into a Federated authentication.<BR>
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> Here is a link to show the latest plans of Google Wave.<BR>
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> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1">http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1</a><BR>
> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1">http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1</a><BR>
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Santosh Rajan<BR>
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