Major steps forward for OpenID
Posted 2/07/2008 10:55:00 AM |


There's big news from the OpenID foundation today: Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the foundation's board. This is obviously a major step forward for OpenID, but it's also good for the entire open identity movement; the major players are seeing the value in consumer choice and control. At ClaimID, we've been advancing these themes since 2005, so it's especially rewarding to see this news. From the OpenID foundation announcement:
By bringing on these companies and their resources, the OpenID Foundation will now be able to better serve the needs of the entire OpenID community. In 2008, we can expect to see a larger focus on making OpenID even more accessible to a mainstream audience, the development of a World-wide trademark usage policy (much like the Jabber Foundation and Mozilla have done), and a larger international focus on working with the OpenID communities in Asia and Europe. Awesome!
Congratulations goes out to OpenID foundation chairman Scott Kveton, and all others involved in the foundation who've worked on this initiative. Scott's blogged the coverage of the announcment if you'd like some more insight. Again, congrats to the OpenID foundation for this huge achievement - today is a very big day for OpenID and open identity work.

Cross-posted to the ClaimID blog.


Permalink | | to this post
View blog reactions | Post to

0 Comments: (Post a Comment)

Post a Comment

Create a Link

<< Home