There is some 'appling & oranging' going on, I think more useful would be to categorize the various groups & initiatives. Here is my stab at a taxonomy:
Specifications
OpenID, SAML, WS-*, ID-WSF, ID-FF, Shibboleth, YADIS, XRI/XDI, OAuth, XACML
Spec Definition Bodies
OASIS, OpenID community, Liberty Alliance, IETF, W3C, ID Commons, ITU, Internet 2, Google groups
OpenSource Software
Bandit, Higgins, OpenLiberty, OpenID for PHP, OpenSAML, ZXID, SimpleSAMLphp
Discussion Forums
ID Gang
Metasystem initiatives
Concordia, Cardspace & OpenID 'partnership'
Conferences/Meetings
Catalyst, RSA, DIDW, IOS
Use cases
User-centric, VRM, enterprise, mobile
With this we can write sentences like
[Specification], defined by the [Spec definition Body] has been optimized to support [Use Case] identity. Work is underway to create software libraries at [Open Source Software]. There will be an interop demonstration of [Specification] and [Specification] working together, as profiled at [Metasystem initiative] at [Conference/Meeting]. Meanwhile, bickering continues on the [Discussion Group].
Maybe we could even standardize the above boiler plate to ensure consistency of PR?
2 comments:
Don't you think that the category "Promotion" (or a better wording for that, but I ruled out "evangelism") is missing ?
We can found in it : Lib. Alliance, PRIME, Oath (from J. Ernst list)...
1) I think you're missing IIW in your conferences/meetings list, and
2) Standardized PR? It sounds great! I look forward to your post a year from now, detailing the taxonomy of PR Standards, PR Conferences, and Open Source PR Software :)
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