<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Welcome, James. For my part, I know for sure that authorization comes up fairly regularly in the context of OpenID, so it's great you are stepping up to help us all find some answers!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would suggest that we start this work here, and if there is too much traffic, we move it off to a new list. </DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 2, 2007, at 8:57, McGovern, James F ((HTSC, IT)) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Johannes invited me to lead the development of the specification for including relationships and authorization as part of OpenID. I have the following questions:</FONT></P><P><FONT size="2" face="Arial">1. Would it be too distracting to have the conversation occur on this listserv or should the admin establish another one?</FONT></P><P><FONT size="2" face="Arial">2. I would also like to get a dialog going around how OpenID would need to work in order to support notions such as Identity propagation, integration into BPM and ECM platforms and support for Identity Based Encryption</FONT></P> <FONT size="3"><BR> <BR> *************************************************************************<BR> This communication, including attachments, is<BR> for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary,<BR> confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended<BR> recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is<BR> strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify<BR> the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and<BR> destroy all copies.<BR> *************************************************************************<BR> </FONT><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; ">specs mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:specs@openid.net">specs@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/specs">http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>