Hi all,
Yahoo is very heavily invested in OpenID and we have a bunch of
engineers and designers currently working on enhancements to our OpenID
service. Earlier this year, we worked with the community to write the
OpenID UI and OAuth/Hybrid Extensions, and the Yahoo OP will be
implementing both of these extensions in the very near future.
In addition to protocol enhancements, we have a crack team of UI/Product
designers and researchers who are actively experimenting with ways to
improve the overall usability of our OpenID service. We'll be deploying
many significant upgrades to the Yahoo OpenID Provider's user interface
later this year. The new OpenID UI, along with support for the UI and
Hybrid Extensions, and our soon to be released support for Open Social's
REST based APIs (including Portable Contacts) will be a huge upgrade to
our existing Open Stack offering.
We've also been working behind the scenes to line up several new and
exciting Relying Parties to accept OpenID. Every potential Relying Party
that I've been working with wants to accept not just Yahoo OpenID, but
also OpenIDs from other Providers, which is making a really strong case
for interoperability and open standards.
Yahoo along with other OPs and Relying Parties are committing plenty of
resources for OpenID and are actively working towards the goal of
having OpenID reach widespread usage and adoption. Many of these
efforts are behind the scenes, and aren't really visible on the public
mailing lists, so perhaps the OpenID Foundation can take the lead in
publicizing the activities that its membership is actively working on.
Allen
Nat wrote:
Hi
Inline below:
=...@tokyo via iPhone
On 2009/07/30, at 2:22, David Recordon <[email protected]> wrote:
Forwarding these three posts from the General list. Not because I
agree with all of the sentiments expressed, but because it shows how
we as a board and organization are clearly not being transparent
enough in the activities that are actually being taken on.
Two ideas I think that we should seriously consider are:
1) making use of a project management tool like Basecamp
(http://www.basecamphq.com/) so that at least the entire board and
Don know the status of each project that is underway
I strongly agree to this.
2) having Don write a monthly blog post about OpenID's achievements
the past month and what the Foundation has accomplished
+1
Thoughts?
--David
Begin forwarded message:
From: Santosh Rajan <[email protected]>
Date: July 28, 2009 11:11:03 PM PDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Google's proprietary discovery extension?
Hehe! Shade for once I am going to agree with you.
Why do we have a chairman? Isnt he supposed to be leading the flock and
showing the way?
And what about the rest of the board. This is the "coldest" board I
have
ever seen.
I think Eran Hammer should have been the chairman of the board! I
wonder why
he disappeared from here 2 yrs back. (I have seen some posts from
him from
2007).
SitG Admin wrote:
There is no sign of the "STD mechanism" coming soon.
Perhaps it will arrive after Chris Messina's "Policy Expression
Extension" passes ;)
Apathy on the part of the OpenID Foundation.
Inaction, or so it may appear; timely, though?
Half the Identity folk have moved on to Kantara Initiative.
The Other half to the Open Web foundation.
XRI TC has tied itself in knots.
And the hilarious part is that there are folk involved in all
these three
foundations!
Sounds like good separation of duties to me. If the rest of us can
still interop (and work is still being done that *needs* to be done
before we can move forward), it doesn't really matter where most of
the various communities is doing that work.
No idea were the rest of us should bail out to!?
If the development of OpenID were to halt now, I think it would be
Federated implementations that found themselves hardest hit; small,
independent operators such as myself (working with libraries already
distributed "in the wild") might not even notice.
-Shade
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