Having been a corporate spokesperson for the Ws-Security launch, I have a rather different take.
The message has to come first. If you get the message right then the media will pick someone to be their favorite messenger. If the message is confused or compromised by hidden agendas then no messenger is going to help. It is not as if there has been a shortage of people volunteering for the position. My view of what we are attempting to do is to develop the equivalent infrastructure for resolving principals (i.e. users and user like agents) to the infrastructure that Web 1.0 provided for resolving document like resources. I would avoid any mention of the term 'identity' as no two people in this group seem to have the same idea of what the term means and nobody in the media has a clue On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Santosh Rajan <[email protected]> wrote: > After the release of the so called OpenIDConnect Spec in the last few hours > my brains have been working overtime about it. > Not that my brains are any better than the brains that have been working > around here. Forgive me for expressing my views in spite of having lesser > intelligence than most people around here. > The biggest problem i see with Open ID is "leadership". Let me explain this. > And this is my personal opinion, so there is nothing wrong if you think i am > entirely wrong. > Before I heard of OpenID i heard of other "Open" stuff like > Linux - Linus Torvalds > jQuery - John Resig etc etc > OpenId has no equivalent figure. There is no one to lead and guide the > "Identity" community. And that is why I think the Identity community is at > such a loss today. In spite of your IIW etc etc. > I honestly think the "Identity" problem could have been solved if we had a > single strong leader respected by everyone. Until then we will have the > suffer the jokes perpetuated on us by all the jokers. > > > > -- > http://hi.im/santosh > > > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs > > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/ _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
