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I would like to start another discussion, which I guess, are the
fundamentals of OpenID. Since everything at the proposed OpenID
standard may be related, I want to understand certain things better and
- if needed organize these....Perhaps some answers exist to my
questions:<br>
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- Who is OpenID? A loose group of people, a foundation, only a
standard? Who owns it? Who makes the decisions?<br>
- What are the responsibilities of OpenID, if at all?<br>
- Dan Lyke (I like your domain name ;-)) mentioned several times, that
X or Y is not the scope of OpenID...So are there options to change
that? Or should we create something like a binding "OpenID
Implementation Appendix"? What happens if crucial pieces of the puzzle
isn't going to be addressed?<br>
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Sorry if I ask questions, which might have been discussed already, but
in order to provide possible solutions to certain problems, we really
might need to start first at the very basics and fundamental stuff. The
reasoning behind this is, that the standard alone doesn't do any harm
or good, as long as it isn't used really. But once it gets adopted and
used by various parties, the standard alone isn't enough. I would have
a few ideas for solving various of these issues once it is more clear
(at least to me), what the organizational options are...<br>
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