Archive for December, 2007
Posted at 11:58 pm on December 31, 2007 by Scott Kveton
Its taken us months of effort but I’m happy to announce that the OpenID Foundation has finalized its intellectual property policy and process. During the 12/13/2007 OpenID Foundation board meeting, we approved the IP policy and process documents.
The gist of this means that we have a process in place that will help the OpenID community to continue to thrive in its efforts. The intellectual property policy helps define how and who can contribute to the project as well as laying out ways to protect those that use the technology.
Huge thanks go out to everyone involved (in no particular order): David Recordon, Bill Washburn, Mike Jones, Kim Cameron, David Daggett, Dick Hardt, Johannes Ernst, Gabe Wachob, Drummond Reed, Martin Atkins and Artur Bergman. There are others I’m sure and I apologize profusely for missing you. We couldn’t have done this without everybody getting behind this effort and I’m really excited what this means for broader adoption of OpenID in 2008.
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Posted at 8:23 pm on December 5, 2007 by David Recordon
While its certainly been a long process in the making, we’re now quite excited to announce OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0 as final specifications (”OpenID 2.0″). This morning was the closing day of the Internet Identity Workshop and David Recordon, Dick Hardt, and Josh Hoyt (three of the authors and editors) made the announcement during the first session. Both specifications have evolved through extensive community participation and feedback and each have been stable for a number of months. There are already a variety of open source libraries shipping these specifications with product support including Google’s Blogger (via Sxip’s library) and Drupal who did their own implementation of the specifications. Multiple OpenID Providers including MyOpenID, Sxipper, and VeriSign’s PIP already have support for both of these specifications. Given past trends, growing support of OpenID 2.0 should be no different. Today the following libraries exist which implement OpenID Authentication 1.1 and 2.0, OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0, and OpenID Simple Registration 1.0:
As part of the IPR work over the past few months we’ve collected non-assertion agreements from contributors to both of these specifications as well as all past specifications. These agreements are a way for contributors (and others) to formally declare that they will not assert any patent rights against OpenID implementations. You can learn more about the IPR work underway at http://openid.net/foundation/intellectual-property/.
It’s important to remember that this has been the work of many folks not only within the OpenID community but also the OpenID Foundation, AOL, Cordance, JanRain, Microsoft, NetMesh, Six Apart, Sxip, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, Verisign and Yahoo!. Microsoft was instrumental in helping with legal support and guidance combined with the insight of Sun and Yahoo! with their joint work in developing the right language. This is great news as it means that today not only is OpenID 2.0 final, but all of the contributors have sent a strong message that OpenID must be freely implementable world-wide.
We certainly invite you to come and join the conversation and the community on general@openid.net.
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Posted at 8:37 am on December 3, 2007 by David Recordon
As a great way to lead into the Internet Identity Workshop this week in Mountain View CA, both Microsoft and Google shipped OpenID features in beta products this past Friday. Microsoft Research announced an experimental Provider while Google announced the ability to comment on Blogger blogs using OpenID.
As some backstory, this past February at the RSA Conference Bill Gates and Craig Mundie announced Microsoft’s support of OpenID 2.0. (See Read/WriteWeb’s coverage…they’re the first result on Google) Since that time there has been a lot of great progress made which culminates with a posting by Kim Cameron’s (Microsoft’s Lead Identity Architect). In addition to being able to authenticate to MyOpenID.com and VeriSign’s PIP using CardSpace, the promise to develop a specification which conveys stronger authentication was used has seen its second (quite stable) draft. We’re very quickly getting to a world where OpenID can be used to move around the web, CardSpace (or other technologies such as tokens) can be used to authenticate to your OpenID Provider, and the Relying Party can find out that you didn’t use a password at all. In addition to this technological work, Microsoft has been incredibly involved in helping the OpenID Community develop an IPR Policy and Process that can be used moving forward to ensure that future specifications are not patent encumbered. You can learn more about the IPR work underway at http://openid.net/foundation/intellectual-property/.
Up until Friday little had been heard from Google in regards to OpenID support. The Blogger Beta has a very clear interface for both enabling and commenting with OpenID. Additionally as the Blogger team is using the OpenID4Java library mainly developed by Sxip Identity, they should have support for OpenID 2.0 as well. Google has also announced that work is underway to have Blogger operate as an OpenID Provider as well. Many others have written about the Blogger announcement too.
All in all, an extremely great way to finish the week before IIW!
Tags: google, microsoft
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