Hi Chris, On 06/02/2009 09:59 PM, Chris Messina:
I am open to Eddy's point about large companies steam-rolling the foundation, but am unclear what contributions smaller companies have attempted to make that have been thwarted because of their participation. If anything, the larger companies have validated the protocol in the marketplace and driven a great deal of value for its adoption, though not without creating a compromised situation with directed identity where big brands are placed in priority against self-hosted OpenIDs.
I'm not criticizing the efforts made by the big members, but I also feel that efforts made by some of the less important board members and other community members are either ignored or are going nowhere...In this respect I have some testimonials received in private mails, and some is obvious for anybody involved longer than 1- 2 years. Look who is running the show....
However my critic is much less that, but rather things which should have been done which were of importance to StartCom. Initially I think it was Bill who tried to get some of the things going, but he quit as the head of the foundation. Trying it after a long wait with Don has resulted exactly in nothing.
Every member has (or might have) its own reasons for joining - one of the main reasons which were important for StartCom simply were ignored eventually (after a nice email confirming that it's taking care of). Therefore there is hardly any basis to keep the membership for the company without the return in expected value. (It might be for me as an individual though).
Regards Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org> Jabber: [email protected] <xmpp:[email protected]> Blog: Join the Revolution! <http://blog.startcom.org> Phone: +1.213.341.0390
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