On Jul 29, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Glen Zorn wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 12:19 -0700, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: >> >> Just a minor comment on this one: >> >> On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:20 AM, SM wrote: >> >> > "[the] working group at the IETF started with strong web presence. But as the >> > work dragged on (and on) past its first year, those web folks left along with >> > every member of the original 1.0 community. The group that was left was largely >> > all enterprise… and me." >> >> The IETF allows open participation and, as such, everyone, including companies that develop enterprise software, are free to participate in the discussions. >> >> Do you think open participation is wrong? > > Do you think that corporate domination of "open" standards development is OK? Hi Like Dale, I haven't followed the play throughout the life of OAuth (the working group) Who are these corporations that dominate the working group? Are they content providers like Facebook, Twitter, or Disney? Are they ISPs? Is it General Motors? If they are the people who are supposed to use these standards, their participation is a good thing. I wish we had more users (corporate or others) in the Security Area. So who are they? Yoav