Re: A selector for OpenID

Johannes Ernst:

In defense of JanRain, I'd say that as the OpenID Foundation, so far  
we have given insufficient guidance on which domain names or product  
names are okay and which aren't.

In defense of the foundation, I'd say that we are only a few steps in  
the process of obtaining the trademark registrations that gives us the  
power to actually mean what we say (which is why we haven't said  
much...)

So among friends, I'd like to encourage JanRain to perhaps find  
another really cool domain name *before* lots of people use it and  
hard-code their links to it -- after all, we'd all hate having to rip  
it out once it is really adopted by many sites ... and I'm sure we all  
agree that the resources of the OpenID Foundation as well as the  
OpenID community should be spent on better things than on (avoidable)  
trademark issues.

  

Not sure if you can enforce that. As long as it doesn't say only "OpenID" I belive it's not enforceable at all. Then what about spreadopenid.org, myopenid.com, openid.org, openid.yahoo.com, openidenabled.com, openiddirectory.com, openid.sun.com, openid.cn, openidfrance.fr, openid.pl, openid.trustbearer.com, openidsource.org

BTW, http://openid.net/ shows a logo with content OpenID.net and no trademark symbols at all ® or ™....this is not enforcing trademarks at all!!