On 8-Jan-07, at 7:01 AM, James McGovern wrote: > I learned of OpenID because I ran across it while blogging. > Otherwise, in > context of my day job working for a Fortune 100 enterprise whose > primary > business model isn't technology otherwise would have never heard of > it. > While this list is to discuss specifications, this begs the > question of > should we create specifications around how to get the word out > better to all > of my industry peers. > > Noticed that folks from Verisign were key players in the creation > of this > spec, yet it is not prominently mentioned on their web site. If you > know to > search for it, it still only returns two results. What do we need > to do to > get Verisign and the other large guys (small guys are covered) to > show a > little more respect towards OpenID in terms of their own web site?
Good question for VeriSign! > > I ran across The : Authentication and Online Trust Alliance and their > upcoming conference (http://www.aotalliance.org/summit2007/) and > noted that > no one is talking about stuff in our space. Does anyone have a list > of all > planned 2007 conferences where OpenID should be discussed? I don't have ALL conferences, but here are some that I known of: Catalyst, Digital ID World, Gartner IdM. Additionally, there are the Web 2.0 and O'Reilly Emerging tech conferences. I am speaking at a couple of CERT conferences and the W3C conference as well as a couple European IdM conferences. > > Also curious if anyone has been pushing the industry analyst crowd to > provide coverage? If not, I will need lots of folks to start > submitting > inquiries to Gartner, Forrester and the Burton Group to get them to > pay > attention. I have briefed Gartner, Forrester and the Burton Group on OpenID and the user-centric model. User-centric identity was discussed in several presentations at the last Catalyst conference. At that time, SXIP/DIX and OpenID had not converged and DIX had more prominence. -- Dick _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs