[Marketing] Some bullet points on OpenID and OpenID Foundation

[Dick Hardt]

On 28-Jan-08, at 1:17 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:

> My suggestions:
>  - let's define ourselves in positive terms, not by what we are  
> not. And who knows, perhaps we will, next quarter?

my comments in brackets were background information to clarify what  
we were stating, not to be part of the message

>  - I like Bill's analogy:
>
>> ... OpenID is a building block upon which end users can/will begin  
>> to establish their independence on the web in much the same way  
>> that ISPs gave individuals actual email independence from the old  
>> walled gardens of that bygone era of Prodigy, Compuserve, and the  
>> pre-Internet versions of AOL and MSN.

An analogy is way to move a message. Let's agree on the message  
first! :-)

>
> And I know everybody will hate me for saying this, but:
>
>> +OpenID is a set of specifications to solve user internet identity  
>> problems
>
>
> is not going to be comprehensible to many people. What exactly are  
> "user internet identity problems"?


This is a messaging platform, not the message. Do we agree that we  
want to move this message? Do you have a suggestion on a concise way  
of describing the problem?

-- Dick