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Subject: Re: [chairs] Microsoft's "Open Specification Promise"
Gabe, This looks like a very promising and a clean way to state MSFT's benign intentions around the WS family of specifications. However, your reference to CardSpace is a bit confusing in this context. CardSpace will likely employ many technologies not covered by this specifications (e.g., the InfoCard artifact itself, linkages to Windows OS etc). So that may be a distinction worth keeping in mind. - prateek mishra > People on these lists who have seen my discussions earlier this year > about IPR licensing may be interested to hear about Microsoft’s > announcement at the Digital Identity World conference [1] of a “Open > Specification Promise” (OSP) [2] around the Cardspace (formerly > Infocard) concept and technology [3]. > > I have scanned it and from an initial review, it looks like a good > model for companies who want the lowest-friction means to allow use of > their intellectual property in specifications which are to be truly > open and widely adopted. > > I think there will be a great amount of discussion about this OSP, > especially as to how it enables open source implementations. However, > perfect or imperfect as it might turn out to be, Microsoft should be > applauded (esp Kim Cameron and Mike Jones) in making this OSP happen. > And I would hope that this sort of licensing catches on here in OASIS. > > -Gabe > > [1] http://conference.digitalidworld.com/2006/ > > [2] http://www.identityblog.com/?p=574 > > [3] http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/reference/infocard/default.aspx >
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