Another goal I have is increasing and improving the tools that are provided to
developers around OpenID from traditional libraries to testing tools to
JavaScript-based user interface components. The past six to nine months I've
been hearing from many members of the community around the World that the
existing open source libraries are falling behind and many larger
implementations are writing their own libraries rather than using those that
exist. I think Google Summer of Code might be one tactic to help us do this,
but we need to work with the community in putting together an overall strategy.
--David
----- "Brian Kissel" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
Agreed, this will not be an official board meeting, but a discussion session
providing input for 2009 priorities. We should target having a recommendation
to discuss at the board call on February 18 th .
Does anyone else have topics they’d like to cover or suggest as priorities in
advance of the session? I’ll try to organize our thoughts in a way that we can
have a productive and effective session and try not to rehash a lot that has
been said in the past. If possible, we should try to get agreement on the top
few initiatives and possibly some measures of success for each. If we have
time left over we can list potential programs and initiatives directed at
achieving the desired results. Here’s what we have so far:
· Goal: improve the UX of OpenID
o Measures of Success: UX is intuitive and consistent across OpenID-enabled
websites; no major concerns by actual/would-be adopters; OpenID login success
rates > username/password login success rates (Johannes)
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: improve the security of OpenID
o Measures of Success:
o Supporting programs and activities:
· G oal: improve the availability and consistency of user profile data
available
o Measures of Success:
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: establish successful reference deployments of OpenID across
specific website categories to address the “chicken and egg” resistance
o Measures of Success:
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: improve awareness and understanding of the benefits and use of
OpenID, for RPs and end users
o Measures of Success:
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: develop a plan for if, when, and how OpenID could be extended
into online retail applications
o Measures of Success:
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: The OpenID brand is clearly defined, known and considered
valuable by the general public (not just techies), and backed by an effective
trademark regime. (Johannes)
o Measures of Success: Specific results from brand surveys, examples of
enforcement against infringers of the brand and trademark
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: OIDF is organizationally and financially sound for the long
term and for the benefit of the entire global community (Johannes)
o Measures of Success: permanent staff, further increasing corporate
support, sufficient resources for well-planned/coordinated activities taking
place world-wide.
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: OpenID-related innovation is driven by the needs of the
marketplace, not just technical coolness (Johannes)
o Measures of Success: Substantial, active involvement in a broad range of
working groups by mainstream businesses
o Supporting programs and activities:
· Goal: obtain broad market involvement in OpenID including Financial,
Web Commerce, Transportation, Social Sites, Internet Providers, Telcos, and
Government (Nat)
o Measures of Success:
o Supporting programs and activities:
Cheers,
> Brian
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Brian Kissel
Cell: 503.866.4424
Fax: 503.296.5502
>
From: Brian Kissel
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:00 AM
> To: [email protected]
>
> Subject: OIDF Board meeting at Facebook next Tuesday
Thanks Luke, if you could book a room for us from 9:30 to noon that would be
great. My guess is we’ll have 8 to 10 board members who should be able to
attend. I think the following have expressed interest so far: Scott, David,
Luke, Joseph, Andrew, Raj, DeWitt, Eric, Chris, and Brian. Pretty sure that
Tony, Mike, Nat, and Snorri can’t make it. Don’t know about Gary.
Luke, do you think you could get us a room with a Polycom so we could allow
anyone who can’t make it in person to call in?
I’m open to topics that people would like to discuss. One valuable area might
be the thread that Johannes and Nat have been moving forward w.r.t. key goals
for 2009. Last fall Johannes pulled together a comprehensive list of possible
areas we should consider addressing that included input from Snorri’s and Nat’s
work as well as input from various board members. We’ve recently emphasized a
focus on UX and Security, let’s try to set some specific goals and measures for
success for these two areas.
Another theme that we’ve heard from lots of prospective RPs is better and more
consistent user profile data from the major OPs (SREG, AX, OAuth). Is there a
role for the OIDF to help in this area, or is this something the individual OPs
need to address for themselves? If there is a role for the OIDF, what is it
and how do we measure our success?
We also have a “chicken and egg” problem where a number of content providers
(media, entertainment, affinity groups) say none of my peers or competitors
have deployed OpenID yet, I’ll just wait until someone else goes first. So
what can the OIDF and member companies do to get some early adopters deployed
in each major category to “prime the pump?” Can we get some early adopters in
several categories: newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, sports, games, personal
productivity tools, college and corporate alumni networks, photo sharing,
etc.? If so, what are the specific programs that the OIDF can undertake to
facilitate this?
Then there’s the general challenge with mainstream awareness about OpenID and
its benefits. When and how do we cost effectively inform and educate RPs and
end users of the benefits? Seems premature to invest too much here until we’ve
addressed some of the issues of UX and getting more early adopter RPs live, but
should we have a goal to start doing more proactive outreach in the second half
of 2009 assuming we can address the precursor issues in the first half?
We’ve started to make some progress in commerce applications with Nat’s success
in Japan and the discussions about TX/CX, but there’s a lot more market
research we need to do to fully understand if, when, and how OpenID and other
related open standards could/should play a role in online commerce. Can we set
some goals for market research into retail applications for 2009? I’ve been
working with Andrew, Eric, Raj, and Nat on trying to set up a Retail Advisory
Committee similar to our Content Provider Advisory Committee to start doing
some more systematic research on the needs of retailers with respect to trust,
non-repudiation, PCI compliance, etc. Should we set some specific goals and
measures of success around understanding retailers’ needs in 2009?
I think we all know that there’s a long list of things we could do, but if we
can come to a consensus on what the top 4 to 5 priorities are for the OIDF
2009, then we can put together programs and measures of success for those key
objectives.
Looking forward to a good discussion.
Cheers,
> Brian
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Cell: 503.866.4424
Fax: 503.296.5502
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