+1<br><br>Congratulations on achieving such solid alignment and great concrete results this month/summer. Let's hope that the Gov 2.0 Summit will further galvanize and energize the global OpenID community as well as stimulate the entire Internet infrastructure "ecosystem" to find common cause in fully responding to the set of opportunities and potential developments now on the table. Much continued success.<br>
<br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">n Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Brian Kissel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com">bkissel@janrain.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">+1, many thanks to John and others
who have been instrumental in our success to date.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><br>
Also, a huge thanks to Don for his leadership in making the past week at the
Gov 2.0 Summit such a huge success for the OpenID Foundation and its
members. When Don joined as the Executive Director, the government
opportunity wasn’t even on the radar. He responded to the
opportunity thoughtfully and aggressively to ensure that OpenID had a seat at
the table for discussions on how to leverage industry standards for citizen engagement
and government transparency.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Lastly, a big thanks to Google,
Yahoo, Verisign, PayPal, and AOL, who announced their plans to support this
initiative as the first OPs to be certified for use on government websites.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">As Don has said, there is a lot
of work still to go, but IMO the OpenID Foundation and its members have done a great
job responding to this important opportunity to increase visibility and
credibility for the OpenID initiative.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: navy;">Cheers,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: navy;"><br>
Brian</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
<a href="mailto:openid-general-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-general-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:openid-general-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-general-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Don
Thibeau (OIDF ED)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2009 9:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:openid-general@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-general@lists.openid.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OpenID] a small piece of history</span></p>
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<p> </p>
<p>On behalf of the Board of Directors of the OpenID
Foundation, I want to thank John Bradley for his leadership in the technical
development of US government support for OpenID. John worked with Andrew
Arnott, George Fletcher, Johnny Bufu and many others in a months-long
collaboration on the GSA profile for OpenID. Their work reflected a
community-wide contribution to OpenID and an important step forward for the
open identity ecosystem. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>CIO Vivek Kundra and government technical teams made sure to
mention how impressed they were by the interchange with their counterparts in
the private sector. They were amazed the profile could be finalized with so
little friction from contributors from competing companies. Government
officials from the White House, the GSA, OMB, DOD and Homeland Security went on
record at Tim O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 and other public forums last week
in support of the open source technology that enabled this next pilot phase.
Getting identity providers and OP's ready hasn’t been easy as the profile
kept moving as government processes kept intruding.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The government’s request of the foundation was a
forcing function that drove collaboration and resource sharing with InCommon
and the Information Card Foundation. To be sure the integration testing exposed
challenges in technical documentation of libraries and best practices.
The expansion of pilots in the next phase of this “mother of all use
cases” will continue the stress test. It will force the open
identity community to engage on how best to mature open identity
interoperability and how to best resolve well known challenges in usability,
security and privacy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Press releases are rarely a source of truth but the public
reaction to the Government’s support of OpenID points to its key role in
the evolution of open identity collaboration. Many saw a small piece of
history made in a user centric and federated identity adoption curve.
Pilots and beta tests are inherently risky; especially in the next public, high
profile, path forward with the government. Public private partnership is
hoped for but seldom seen so clearly in the progress made last week. The
OIDF and ICF foundation boards continue to work together. All that was at play
in the US CIO public thanks for a small but significant step toward open
identity’s contribution to open government. </p>
<p> </p>
<p><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Don Thibeau</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><a href="mailto:don@OIDF.org" target="_blank">don@OIDF.org</a></span></i></p>
<p>Executive Director</p>
<p>The OpenID Foundation</p>
<p><a href="http://openid.net" target="_blank">http://openid.net</a></p>
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