<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">This is to thank the PayPal team for hosting last week's OpenID Retail Summit. </font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Andrew Nash and Ashish Jain, together with Brian Kissel organized and led the discussions. This was the second in a series of OpenID Summits, each focusing on a theme or use cases important to OpenID adoption. In his presentation, Mike Jones noted that the OpenID AB/Connnect Working Group will be using each OpenID Summit to update the community and engage all in the how OpenID technology is evolving.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">My highlights included: Mike Repass's critique of OpenID and its place in Linkedin technology strategy was detailed, honest and instructive. Farang Kassaei in a similarly straightforward way walked through the risk management best practices associated with identity in eBay's environment. Among the newcomers were Jon Nordmark of </font><a href="http://Usingmiles.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Usingmiles.com</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> and eBags and </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Gary Rush, CTO of Angie’s List. Their assessment of OpenID from the perspective of new market entrants and new use cases reminded us about the growing diversity of OpenID applications. Several attendees pointed out the benefits of the new perspectives offered by new players. Andrew Yap, one of Safeway's team, was positive about the usefulness of the technical discussions and the experience of others like Kodak and Sears as Safeway sorts through their customer engagement strategies. Many new attendees pointed out how helpful the updates were from Aol, Eric Sachs's</font><a href="http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ajkhp5hpp3tt_87ds3v38fk&skipauth=true"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> presentation deck</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> and offers to login to Google services with a Yahoo or AOL OpenID, here is the link with instructions </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; "><a class="info" href="http://goo.gl/TiBXN" title="goo.gl/TiBXN" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">goo.gl/TiBXN</font></a></span><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></div></span></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The Retail Summit was the latest in a series of outreach activities by the OpenID Foundation to solicit input and feedback from retailers utilizing online channels (web, mobile, interactive TV, etc.) to better serve their customers and prospects. This group is similar to the Content Provider Advisory Committee which was formed in 2009 to serve news, media, and entertainment organizations providing content to their users, members, and customers via online channels. It focuses on outbound communication from the OpenID Foundation (OIDF), Identity Providers (IDPs), and Social Network Providers (SNPs) to Retailers on progress and plans for OpenID and related technologies (OAuth, Portable Contacts, Activity Streams, etc.) that may be of interest to Retailers. The Retail Summit organized input and feedback from Retailers to the OIDF, IDPs, and SNPs on the needs and expectations of Retails and their customers and set the stage for future collaboration with the National Association of Retailers to leverage OpenID and related technologies to serve their customers better and achieve improved business results.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The next OpenID Summit is on the afternoon May 2 at the Symantec Headquarters, 350 Ellis Street Mountain View CA. Google and Symantec are co hosting and have chosen security as the theme for the Summit. We will be sending out a draft agenda soon but invite your input on topics, speakers and key questions to address. </font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"><br></font></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">The last word belongs a Summit invitee Richard E. Last</font></span><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> of </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">JCPenney Digital Ventures who noted; </font></span><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">"</font></span><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">Let us think more of the opportunity before us than we do of the accomplishment behind us."</font></span><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> </font></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'"> </font></span><span style="color: blue; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Helvetica Neue'">- James Cash Penney, 1927</font></span></div></div></body></html>