David Recordon's Presentation at eComm 2008
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Transcript of David Recordon's Presentation at eComm 2008
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