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I still think you're missing a point here, OpenID.net is not the home of the Foundation. The Foundation owns it in trust for the community. It is the community's website and many people looking to use OpenID (not those who have providers themselves) really want a simple way to get an OpenID. This feedback has been heard loudly both from perspective users of OpenID as well as Relying Parties who are confused where they should link their own users to learn about OpenID and get one.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>--David</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 14, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:14, Dick Hardt wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite">I think it is a very slippery slope for the website and/or board to recommend OpenID providers without being inclusive of ALL providers.</blockquote><br><div>I agree and have said this before. I understand the end user requirement, but I would much rather have us (the foundation) point to third-party recommendations than making those recommendations ourselves.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>It's a bit like if the Bluetooth consortium said "buy these of our members' products, but not those of those other members" -- and we don't even have a comformance suite within OpeniD!</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Johannes.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Johannes Ernst</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NetMesh Inc.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span></span><span></span><span><span><openid-relying-party-authenticated.gif></span></span><span><span><lid.gif></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "> <a href="http://netmesh.info/jernst">http://netmesh.info/jernst</a><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </span></div><br><span><openid-relying-party-authenticated.gif></span><span><lid.gif></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">marketing mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:marketing@openid.net">marketing@openid.net</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/marketing">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/marketing</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>