FYI - Tony Rutkowski sent the message below to the ID Gang list advising us not to use the acronym "OID" when referring to the OpenID Foundation. He seemed fine with OIDF, which is what I use.
=Drummond -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Rutkowski Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Use of "OID" for Open ID foundation Hi all, I understand that someone is unwittingly doing this. Bad choice. OID for the past 20 year refers to "Object ID" - the "other' domain name infrastructure developed by the Open Systems Interconnection world 25 years ago, and used today as the primary global namespace of digital certificates, SNMP, RFIDs (as of last week), and various other uses. --tony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Identity Gang" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/idworkshop?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
