That magic moment (from: Marc’s Voice)
http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/03/that_magic_mome.html
Here’s a photo James Hong shot at PC Forum. As James describes it:
I HAD to take a picture of this potentially historic moment.. Kim Cameron (Microsoft) and Mitchell Baker (Mozilla) discussing the possibility of cooperating on Open Identity!! Do it guys!! It’ll change the world and make the Net feel safe again.
Craig Burton has his own version of the story…..
Doc Searls arranged a meeting yesterday beween Mitchell Baker and Kim Cameron to discuss the possibility of Mozilla supporting Kim’s Open Identity System. Since the meeting was at the PC Forum, and I live in Scottsdale, I was lucky enough to be sitting at the table during the event. It was so cool when Mitchell groked what Kim was proposing.
Of course she didn’t make any commitments, but it was obvious that her wheels were turning. I think history was made. Wouldn’t it be cool if Firefox supported Kim’s Open Identity System, It felt like a real magic moment.
If I were Mozilla, I would jump all over it!
Later: James Hong was also there and took a photo of the moment. He posted the uri in the comments but I thought it should be up front. Thanks James!
And Doc puts it this way (on his IT Garage):
If you’re wondering about the power of podcasting, stay tuned for what’s happening to bring identity to the suite of Internet services. (for details on the meaning of that phrase, see Craig Burton’s Internet Services Model). Back on December 31, Steve Gillmor convened a Gillmor Gang podcast of a conversation about identity. On the ‘cast were Craig, Kim Cameron, Dave Winer, Drummond Reed, Marc Canter, Bryan Field-Elliot, Phil Windley and myself. (For more background on the ‘cast, see this post here.) There were so many on the ‘cast that it became known as The Gaggle.The conversation continued, to say the least.
So in other words - if you ever wondered whatever happened with FOAFnet and my identity efforts, I’ve been working the back channels, insider games and politics of the Commons - trying to make sure everyone was talkng to each other.
Our own solution is Sxip Networks - but anyone should be able to use their own solution, and plug into a ‘identity backplane’ that…..
OOoppps - we’re still not ready to announce - yet. Stay tuned till DIDW in May. It’ll be big.
The only bummer was that Dave Winer wasn’t there. His concerns on Microsoft drove us to create this ‘bottoms up’ effort. Clearly MS will worry about the top-down ramifications of their actions, but ‘we’re’ helping them - from the bottom up.
Maybe Dave can come to DIDW this year?