Gabe, I think you nailed it. The problem I run across is that my interest in using OpenID is all about getting a federation of sorts up and working within my insurance vertical which contains 250 distinct competitors. Getting emails offlist privately with vendors marketing uniquely to me is not only frustrating but doesn't actually help my goal.
I don't want to choose a vendor at this time in that we all as a vertical need to agree on some other things first, so the thought of me running around attempting to coordinate a cross-company marketing event is problematic. Likewise, in terms of being in a regulated industry, I couldn't do this except in very publicly observable ways such as asking folks to blog on things, etc. Collusion is important and the best way to avoid is to ask folks who want to sell us software to market in other than a point-to-point way. -----Original Message----- From: Gabe Wachob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:44 PM To: 'Recordon, David'; McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT); specs@openid.net Subject: RE: Promoting OpenID More likely that the people promoting OpenID to large organizations are vendors and don't particularly want to tell their competitors what they are doing. Now, imagine if there were like-minded vendors getting together to form some sort of marketing organization to promote OpenID to a variety of audiences, including large enterprises... ;-) -Gabe ************************************************************************* This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. ************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
