Communityand Open Standards

David Recordon

Six Apart and the OpenID Foundation

Community

Identity

Open APIs

Portability

Normal People

Most Standards Processes

• Large organizations collaborate to create them

• Often behind expensive closed doors

• IETF is a great example of community standards process

• Seemingly complex outcome

• Hard to know how to participate

Jabber / XMPP

How'd they come about?

• There was always existing technology

• It was either too complicated or proprietary

• Passionate people found each other via the Web

• Decided to solve one problem at a time

• Open mailing lists, wikis, and websites

• They scratched their itch!

but where is telephony?

Five Projects You Could Easily Participate In

1

Mobile OpenID

2

Mobile OAuth

3

hCard Parsing

4

DiSo

5

OpenSocial

These communities would welcome your

ideas!

An eComm 2008 presentation –see eCommMedia.com for more details