I think OpenID needs to stop thinking that URLs are going to work. Skip that part of the workflow. - Cliff Gerrish
Cobblers, Cliff. URLs are the point of OpenID. If we can get people stuck in an email mindset to derive a URL, that's good for adoption, but OpenID means URLs are returned to the RP; that's how we get to the goodness of endpoints for richer data - Kevin Marks
I've been very disappointed so far. All I see are VCs, former FCC wonks, a few nice people - but nobody with balls or vision! Maybe we've been hoodwinked! - Marc Canter
Marc if you look at the job application you'll see why. They're so scared of scandal, you have to have never said anything to pass the test. - Dave Winer
And thus is the reason why government doesn't work. At least in Healthcare a doctor has to make the call to save a life, but in government no one is accountable. Unless you have a passionate person who's vision can create momentum and carry 100's if not 1,000s of people with them - through the multi-year effort to gets something done, it's a hopeless cause. - Marc Canter
He has the perfect analogy: the monks he talks about actually took a vow of poverty, which is where, it seems, the "open everything" movement will lead. It's nice to say that this is "the right thing to do," but it's amazing how unimportant that becomes when you can't feed your family. Note that I'm not in disagreement with the open software movement per se, but it won't succeed if you expect everyone to do it. They won't. - Glen Campbell
