[Marketing] Some bullet points on OpenID and OpenID Foundation

[Dick Hardt]

On 28-Jan-08, at 12:04 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:

> I'd add the positioning phrase I've mentioned before: "OpenID lets  
> people
> use their own identifier to register, login, and access services at  
> any
> OpenID-enable site."

I think using their own identifier is limiting. The identifier might  
not be their's -- for example the sun.com OpenIDs that all Sun  
employees now have.

I'd like us to describe the problem space OpenID is solving at a high  
level. Remember that we are helping people understand the general  
area that OpenID is working to solve, not describe what it is today.

>
> We should *not* use the phrase "OpenID gives people a single  
> username they
> can use at all OpenID-enable websites" because that invites the  
> privacy
> criticisms we have addressed with directed identity in OpenID 2.0.

I agree. The single identifier message is untrue and invites privacy  
concern criticism.

- Dick