My concern regarding this announcement is the fact that it gives support to a
misguided effort by Liberty Alliance. I think it is somewhat irresponsible for
the ISOC to actively support an effort without first engaging the community at
large to fully understand the dynamics of the identity communities involved.
The people behind the IDtbd effort have been going around trying to sell this
effort for a while. The reality is that at this point, the communities behind
two of the most successful identity related protocols, OAuth and OpenID, have
rejected this effort by Liberty, including many of the individual companies
that support these communities.
I find it personally offensive that Liberty have been going behind the OAuth's
community's back trying get corporations to move their OAuth and OpenID efforts
to IDtbd instead of the communities that drive these efforts forward.
IDtbd is an effort to create a full-blown standard body to manage all identity
related protocols, with its own set of IPR rules, process, and governance. They
seek to nullify existing communities by positioning themselves as the authority
in the space. Supporting this effort directly contradicts the current IETF
effort to form an OAuth working group.
EHL
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