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Thanks a lot for your explanation! All clear!<br>
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David Recordon wrote:
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type="cite">Hey Eddy,
<div>The reason behind splitting work into working groups is to allow
contributors to make decisions as to the areas they wish to
participate. As the policy requires contributors make promises around
their intellectual property for OpenID specifications, we want to allow
for these promises to be scoped to a given specification. This is
common practice within standards organizations so that larger companies
can better keep track of how a particular specification may effect
their patent portfolio.</div>
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<div>--David</div>
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<div>On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Hi David,<br>
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Even so you explained below reasonable, allow me a question:<br>
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Why is there a need to have different policies for Authentication and
Attribute Exchange and what would this practically mean? Specially this
two drafts are extremely important to OpenID in my opinion. What would
be the implications for implementers of this (current in draft)
specifications? Or does this only affect future contributers? Tanks
upfront for your clarification on this...<br>
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David Recordon wrote:
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cite="mid:B0FE5E9E-0D76-49F8-9D88-BA7FA1E725F0@sixapart.com"
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<pre wrap=""> - Once the policy is adopted, specification work will be broken up
into "working groups" based upon a topic. For example Authentication
and Attribute Exchange will most likely become two working groups
with each group having its own specs-<foo>@openid.net mailing list.
This is to allow for IPR promises from the larger companies which may
not wish to participate in every OpenID community effort. </pre>
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