[OIDFSC] FW: Proposal to create the TX working group

Nat Sakimura n-sakimura at nri.co.jp
Mon Jan 19 02:44:52 UTC 2009


What about other people for 21st 15:00 PST? 

Tatsuki, could you add that date to the doodle poll as well? 

=nat

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From: "David Recordon" <recordond at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:51 PM
To: "Tatsuki Sakushima" <tatsuki at nri.com>
Cc: <specs-council at openid.net>
Subject: Re: [OIDFSC] FW: Proposal to create the TX working group

> Thanks, though neither of those times work for me unfortunately but any time the 21st should.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Tatsuki Sakushima <tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As many of you suggested using Doodle.com, I created the event there:
> 
> http://www.doodle.com/rat2s87iyeqxd79z
> 
> Please update your schedule there.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tatsuki
> 
> Tatsuki Sakushima
> NRI Pacific - Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.
> 
> (1/15/09 5:04 PM), Tatsuki Sakushima wrote:
> Dear the Specifications Council members (especially David and Mike) and
> the proposers of the CX WG,
> 
> Upon the request by David, I re-schedule this teleconference to the next week.
> Please reply this message and specify the option that you prefer. Based
> on replies from all participants who intend to join, I'll set up a
> conference bridge and email them the information.
> 
> I suggest the following schedules as candidate dates:
> 
> 1) 4:00pm on 1/22(PST)
> 12:00am on 1/22(GMT)
> 9:00am on 1/23(JST)
> 
> 2) 2:00pm on 1/23(PST)
> 10:00pm on 1/23(GMT)
> 7:00am on 1/24(JST)
> 
> In the OIDFSC mailing list, David already stated and explained concerns
> about the previous charter submitted by Nat:
> 
> http://openid.net/pipermail/specs-council/2008-December/000045.html
> http://openid.net/pipermail/specs-council/2008-December/000046.html
> http://openid.net/pipermail/specs-council/2008-December/000027.html
> 
> The group of the proposers(Nat, Drummond, John, Henrik and Tatsuki) gathered today to
> discuss how to change the charter that does hopefully eliminate the concerns mentioned in
> the messages from Mike and David. The updated version is on the same wiki page:
> 
> http://wiki.openid.net/Working_Groups%3AContract_Exchange_1
> 
> Please take another look at it before the teleconference and provide us feedbacks
> so that we can discuss about the new charter.
> 
> If you have any comments or concerns about scheduling and so forth, please let me know.
> 
> Best,
> Tatsuki
> 
> Tatsuki Sakushima
> NRI Pacific - Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.
> 
> (1/15/09 2:50 PM), David Recordon wrote:
> Hi Tatsuki,
> I'm really sorry but it turns out that I must have mixed up my days when looking at the times yesterday.  I have a two hour meeting at 3pm today.
> 
> Is it possible to try to plan this call more than a day in advance for next week?
> 
> Sorry,
> --David
> 
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Tatsuki Sakushima <tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com> <mailto:tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com>>> wrote:
> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   David and Mike Jones from the spec council responded for this
>   invitation.
>   David can join a conference call on the 1) slot, so I'd like schedule
>   a call on the date below:
> 
>   Date:  Thursday, 15 January 2009 USA
>   Time:  3:05PM - 4:05AM(PST)
>        11:05PM on 1/15(GMT)
>         8:05PM on 1/16(JST)
> 
>   TO ACCESS THE AUDIO CONFERENCE:
>      Dial In Number: 1 (605) 475-4333
>      Access Code: 199834
> 
>    From the proposers side, I confirmed that Nat, Drummond, John,
>   and I can join. Unfortunately Mike Graves and Henrik cannot join
>   because both of them are not available on the 1) slot but on the 2).
> 
> 
>   Best,
>   Tatsuki
> 
>   Tatsuki Sakushima
>   NRI Pacific - Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.
> 
> 
>   (1/14/09 1:59 PM), Tatsuki Sakushima wrote:
> 
>       Dear all,
> 
>        > I suggest the following schedules as candidate dates:
>        >
>        > 1) 2:00pm on 1/15(PST)
>        >  10:00pm on 1/15(GMT)
>        >  7:00am on 1/16(JST)
> 
>       On Thursday, there is a XRI TC telecon that many of us join.
>       Therefore, I suggested a hour moved back on 1). The new schedule
>       is below:
> 
>       1) 3:00pm on 1/15(PST)
>        11:00pm on 1/15(GMT)
>        8:00am on 1/16(JST)
> 
>       Sorry for members in Europe. I might be hard to join it at this
>       hour.
> 
>       Best,
>       Tatsuki
> 
>       Tatsuki Sakushima
>       NRI Pacific - Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.
>       TEL:(650)638-7258
>       SkypeIn:(650)209-4811
> 
>       (1/14/09 1:45 PM), Tatsuki Sakushima wrote:
> 
>           (The options of the schedules have the same number. I send the
>           collection and please discard the previous one.)
> 
>           Dear the Specifications Council members (especially David
>           and Mike) and
>           the proposers of the CX WG,
> 
>           Upon the request of scheduling a call by Nat, I'd like to
>           invite all the
>           members of the spec council and the CX WG proposers to a
>           teleconference
>           to discuss how to solve the charter clarification and scope
>           concerns
>           pointed out by the spec council.
> 
>           I suggest the following schedules as candidate dates:
> 
>           1) 2:00pm on 1/15(PST)
>            10:00pm on 1/15(GMT)
>            7:00am on 1/16(JST)
> 
>           2) 2:00pm on 1/16(PST)
>            10:00pm on 1/16(GMT)
>            7:00am on 1/17(JST)
> 
>           Please reply this message and specify the option that you
>           prefer. Based
>           on replies from all participants who intend to join, I'll
>           set up a
>           conference bridge and email them the information.
> 
>           In the OIDFSC mailing list, David already stated and
>           explained concerns
>           about the previous charter submitted by Nat:
> 
>           http://openid.net/pipermail/specs-council/2008-December/000045.html
>           http://openid.net/pipermail/specs-council/2008-December/000046.html
>           http://openid.net/pipermail/specs-council/2008-December/000027.html
> 
>           I think that the goal of this telecon is:
> 
>           a) For the proposers to clarify points of concerns raised by
>           the council
>           and explain intentions of the WG.
>           b) For the spec council to provide concrete suggestions to
>           make the
>           charter comfortable and reasonable to the spec council and
>           the community .
> 
>           If you have any comments or concerns on this message, please
>           let me know.
> 
>           Best,
>           Tatsuki
> 
>           Tatsuki Sakushima
>           NRI Pacific - Nomura Research Institute America, Inc.
> 
>           (1/13/09 12:15 AM), Nat Sakimura wrote:
> 
>               Tatsuki,
> 
>               Could you kindly set-up a followup call, please?
> 
>               In the mean time though, I would like to ask spec
>               council members for the response towards the answers
>               given by the proposers to your concerns. Any concrete
>               suggestion to make it acceptable to the spec council is
>               also welcome. It's a wiki, after all.
> 
>               As to the "community support", it would probably depend
>               on what "community".
>               The proposers are probably talking of higher value
>               transaction users, and if we do it in timely manner, I
>               am pretty confident that it will have some traction, but
>               it needs to happen fast. If we take too much time, the
>               opportunity will go away from OpenID.
> 
>               =nat
> 
>               2009/1/1 Drummond Reed <Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net<mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net>
>               <mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net<mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net>>
>               <mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net<mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net>
>               <mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net<mailto:Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net>>>>
> 
>                  David,
> 
>                      First, I agree with Henrik's comments (see his
>               separate email).
>                  Second, to say, "I do not believe that it currently
>               has sufficient
>                  support within the OpenID community to succeed", did
>               you see the
>                  list of proposers for this workgroup?
> 
>                      * Drummond Reed, drummond.reed at parity.com<mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com>
>               <mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com<mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com>>
>                        <mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com<mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com>
>               <mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com<mailto:drummond.reed at parity.com>>>,
>               Cordance/Parity/OASIS (U.S.A)
>                      * Henrik Biering, hb at netamia.com<mailto:hb at netamia.com>
>               <mailto:hb at netamia.com<mailto:hb at netamia.com>> <mailto:hb at netamia.com<mailto:hb at netamia.com>
>               <mailto:hb at netamia.com<mailto:hb at netamia.com>>>,
>                        Netamia (Denmark)
>                      * Hideki Nara, hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>
>               <mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>> <mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>
>               <mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>>>,
>                        Tact Communications (Japan)
>                      * John Bradeley, jbradley at mac.com<mailto:jbradley at mac.com>
>               <mailto:jbradley at mac.com<mailto:jbradley at mac.com>> <mailto:jbradley at mac.com<mailto:jbradley at mac.com>
>               <mailto:jbradley at mac.com<mailto:jbradley at mac.com>>>,
>                        OASIS IDTrust Member Section (Canada)
>                      * Mike Graves, mgraves at janrain.com<mailto:mgraves at janrain.com>
>               <mailto:mgraves at janrain.com<mailto:mgraves at janrain.com>> <mailto:mgraves at janrain.com<mailto:mgraves at janrain.com>
>               <mailto:mgraves at janrain.com<mailto:mgraves at janrain.com>>>,
>                        JanRain, Inc. (U.S.A.)
>                      * Nat Sakimura, n-sakimura at nri.co.jp<mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>
>               <mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp<mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>>
>                        <mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp<mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>
>               <mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp<mailto:n-sakimura at nri.co.jp>>>, Nomura Research Institute,
>                        Ltd.(Japan)
>                      * Robert Ott, robert.ott at clavid.com<mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com>
>               <mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com<mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com>>
>                        <mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com<mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com>
>               <mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com<mailto:robert.ott at clavid.com>>>, Clavid (Switzerland)
>                      * Tatsuki Sakushima, tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com>
>               <mailto:tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com>> <mailto:tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com>
>               <mailto:tatsuki at nri.com<mailto:tatsuki at nri.com>>>,
>                        NRI America, Inc. (U.S.A.)
>                      * Toru Yamaguchi, trymch at gmail.com<mailto:trymch at gmail.com>
>               <mailto:trymch at gmail.com<mailto:trymch at gmail.com>> <mailto:trymch at gmail.com<mailto:trymch at gmail.com>
>               <mailto:trymch at gmail.com<mailto:trymch at gmail.com>>>,
>                        Cybozu Labs (Japan)
> 
>                  In short, my first reaction to reading your email was
>               to think,
>                  "Wow, here it is, the first example of OpenID turning
>               into W3C and
>                  IETF and every other standards organization that
>               turns into a small
>                  group of insiders trying to control innovation!"
> 
>                      Of course I think you, more than almost anyone,
>               can appreciate the
>                  irony of that thought – I believe it was to avoid
>               that very
>                  situation that the OIDF was created, no?
> 
>                      So if we DON'T want that to happen, I think what
>               we need to do ASAP
>                  is turn this into a constructive dialog between the
>               proposers of
>                  this Working Group and the Specs Council about how
>               the charter might
>                  be amended to addess some of your concerns. (I'm not
>               commenting yet
>                  on your specific concerns, other than to say that I
>               agree with some
>                  and not with others.)
> 
>                      I suspect email is going to be much too slow for
>               such a dialog, so I
>                  would suggest that Nat and Tatksuki set up a telecon
>               between the
>                  Working Group proposers and the Specs Council
>               members. I would also
>                  suggest that before such a telecon, the Specs Council
>               get together
>                  and collectively list their issues with the Charter
>               on the Working
>                  Group Charter page. I have added a section for this
>               purpose:
> 
>                                                    http://wiki.openid.net/Working_Groups%3AContract_Exchange_1#cSpecificationCouncilIssues
> 
> 
>                      It may be that all the Specs Council members
>               agree with your four
>                  points below, in which case you can just wholesale
>               copy them into
>                  the wiki page. However it is very important that the
>               Specs Council
>                  come to it's own consensus about the issues it has
>               with the charter,
>                  because without that, the WG proposers have no hope
>               of addressing
>                  these issues, either with counterarguments or with
>               potential amendments.
> 
>                      Listing the issues there also enables us to have
>               a more focused
>                  discussion than email alone by using comments
>               directly on the wiki page.
> 
>                      =Drummond
> 
>                                     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                  *From:* David Recordon [mailto:recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>
>               <mailto:recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>
>               <mailto:recordond at gmail.com<mailto:recordond at gmail.com>>>]
>                  *Sent:* Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:33 AM
>                  *To:* Nat Sakimura
>                  *Cc:* specs-council at openid.net<mailto:specs-council at openid.net>
>               <mailto:specs-council at openid.net<mailto:specs-council at openid.net>>
>               <mailto:specs-council at openid.net<mailto:specs-council at openid.net>
>               <mailto:specs-council at openid.net<mailto:specs-council at openid.net>>>;
>                  Josh Hoyt; Tatsuki Sakushima; John Bradley;
>               hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp> <mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>>
>                  <mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>
>               <mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp<mailto:hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>>>; Robert Ott; Michael
>               Graves; Henrik
>                  Biering; Drummond Reed; Nat Sakimura; 山口徹
> 
> 
>                  *Subject:* Re: [OIDFSC] FW: Proposal to create the TX
>               working group
> 
>                      Hi Nat,
> 
>                  I read Josh's email as agreeing with Mike's statement of:
> 
>                  The OpenID Specifications Council recommends that
>               members reject
>                  this proposal to create a working group because the
>               charter is
>                  excessively broad, it seems to propose the creation
>               of new
>                  mechanisms that unnecessarily create new ways to do
>               accomplish
>                  existing tasks, such as digital signatures, and it
>               the proposal is
>                  not sufficiently clear on whether it builds upon
>               existing mechanisms
>                  such as AX 1.0 in a compatible manner, or whether it
>               requires
>                  breaking changes to these underlying protocols.
> 
> 
>                  While you have clarified that you don't intend to
>               create a new XML
>                  signature mechanism, OAuth describes a mechanism to
>               use public keys
>                  to sign these sorts of parameters.  Signatures aside,
>               as Mike said
>                  other aspects of the charter seem quite broad and it
>               is unclear how
>                  it will build upon AX 1.0 and other underlying
>               existing OpenID
>                  technologies.
> 
>                  Given the draft charter at
>                                 http://wiki.openid.net/Working_Groups%3AContract_Exchange_1:
>                  1) The purpose of producing a series of extensions
>               seems too broad.     OpenID was born on the idea of
>               doing one simple thing and we've seen
>                  success with OpenID and related technologies when
>               they are made up
>                  of small pieces loosely joined.  OpenID
>               Authentication 2.0 broke
>                  this rule in some areas and we're now seeing the
>               repercussions of
>                  doing so.
> 
>                  2) In what jurisdictions are these contracts legally
>               binding?  Is
>                  "arbitrary parties to create and exchange a
>                  mutually-digitally-signed legally binding 'contract'"
>               a justifiable
>                  statement or should it be toned down?  It should also
>               be kept in
>                  mind that since OpenID's creation it has been very
>               clear that OpenID
>                  does not provide trust, but rather trust can be built
>               on top of
>                  identity.  I'm not saying that OpenID should never
>               deal with trust,
>                  just trying to understand if this Working Group
>               intends to change
>                  how OpenID currently does not create this form of trust.
> 
>                  3) The purpose says that the Working Group intends to
>               possibly
>                  extend AX and create a series of specifications.  It
>               does not seem
>                  prudent to give a Working Group the ability to
>               arbitrarily extend an
>                  existing extension or create an unlimited number of
>               specifications.
> 
>                  4) The Scope section is still not clear as to what
>               the Working Group
>                  will actually be producing.  I would prefer to see
>               the section
>                  rewritten, maybe mimicking the structure currently
>               being considered
>                  for the specification.
> 
>                  As to if you wish to force this proposal forward, I
>               do not believe
>                  that it currently has sufficient support within the
>               OpenID community
>                  to succeed and that its broad scope contravenes the
>               community's
>                  purpose.  This is why I'm really hoping that the
>               proposal can be
>                  refined to something which will be successful that a
>               broad community
>                  can get behind!
> 
>                  --David
> 
>                      On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Nat Sakimura
>               <sakimura at gmail.com<mailto:sakimura at gmail.com> <mailto:sakimura at gmail.com<mailto:sakimura at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:sakimura at gmail.com<mailto:sakimura at gmail.com>
>               <mailto:sakimura at gmail.com<mailto:sakimura at gmail.com>>>> wrote:
> 
>                  Hi Josh,
>                      To which statement did you agree?
> 
>                      There has been a several things that has been
>               pointed out, but I
>                  think I have answered to them.
>                      For example, for XML Sig, I have stated that this
>               spec is not for
>                  XML, etc.
>                  For modularization, yes, that is a possibility but a
>               scope needs to
>                  be able to cover a field that it requires, even if it
>               ends up not
>                  covering that field.
>                  It is impossible to widen the scope though narrowing
>               it down at a
>                  later date is easy.
>                      Unfortunately, I have not heard back any concrete
>               response
>                  for amendments. It would be more constructive to have
>               those.
>                      Also, if you are giving advise to the membership
>               an recommendation
>                  for not approving it, you need to state the reasons
>               concretely.
>                      It needs to be one of
>                      (a)    an incomplete Proposal (i.e., failure to
>               comply with §4.1);
>                  (b)    a determination that the proposal contravenes
>               the OpenID
>                  community's purpose;
>                  (c)    a determination that the proposed WG does not
>               have sufficient
>                  support to succeed
> 
>                           or to deliver proposed deliverables within
>               projected
>                  completion dates; or
>                  (d)    a  determination that the proposal is likely
>               to cause legal
>                  liability for the OIDF or others.
>                      and should state why the proposal falls into one
>               of the criteria
>                  concretely and accountably.
>                      Regards,
>                      =nat
> 
>                      On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Josh Hoyt
>               <josh at janrain.com<mailto:josh at janrain.com> <mailto:josh at janrain.com<mailto:josh at janrain.com>>
>                  <mailto:josh at janrain.com<mailto:josh at janrain.com> <mailto:josh at janrain.com<mailto:josh at janrain.com>>>>
>               wrote:
> 
>                  On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mike Jones
> 
>                  <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com<mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>
>               <mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com<mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>>
>               <mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com<mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>
>               <mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com<mailto:Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>>>>
>                  wrote:
> 
>                  >  I realize it was Christmas week but it's been a
>               week and we've
>                  heard nothing
>                  >  from any of the other specs council members on
>               this proposal (or
>                  the other
>                  >  one as well).
> 
>                  I agree with the statement that you made about this
>               proposal.
> 
>                  Josh
> 
> 
> 
>                  --     Nat Sakimura (=nat)
>                  http://www.sakimura.org/en/
> 
>                               --                 Nat Sakimura (=nat)
>               http://www.sakimura.org/en/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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