Re: [Auth]Approaching Vendors

[Jeremy Petzold]

I just had a thought as I read your measage, would it
be wise to submit this standard to some internet body
like the W3C?

--- Ron Burk <address@hidden> wrote:
> It seems to me we're within a week or two of
> needing to involve vendors of personal information
> database software, as well as web site designers
> (I know, we've probably all designed web sites,
> but there are likely folks out there with both
> broader
> experience, and greater ability to influence
> others.)
> I say this, because it seems we're getting more into
> a level of detail that could easily be invalidated
> by
> the input of those participants. I'm thinking the
> following needs to happen:
> 
> * Continue the feedback loop on the documents
>     Albert and I are maintaining (I will link mine
> to
>     his). Increase confidence that there's a
>     rough consensus, and that no one will pop
>     up and say "But none of this can actually
>     work because:"
> 
> * Because most of the vendors do not integrate
>     directly with the browser (as far as I can
> tell),
>     I would like to have a better selling
> proposition for
>     them than I currently have. Or maybe I should
> just
>     not worry about it, get them involved, and let
> them
>     spell out exactly what their needs are. I have
> this
>     vague notion that a relatively simple "hook" DLL
> would
>     handle all their Windows needs, or maybe they
> only
>     avoided integrating with the browser previously
> precisely
>     because there was no standard like this.
> 
> * Finally, there has to be some quasi-official
> endorsement
>     from some quasi-official dotGNU person(s) that
> this
>     is really going forward. Any effort could fail,
> but
>     I think it's important to approach the
> third-party
>     participants with something that's a real,
> endorsed
>     portion of the dotGNU suite (as opposed to "umm,
>     this is something we're thinking about and maybe
> you
>     could take a look" :-).
> 
> * In conjunction with the previous item, we should
> put
>    together a form letter to use in approaching
> vendors.
>    Since dotGNU is not trying to enter the business
> of
>    creating client software for this particular
> project, it's
>    important to treat each vendor equally and avoid
> any
>    appearance of favoring one over another. There
> may
>    be legalistic issues to be ironed out in this
> area as well
>    (e.g., specifying ownership of the standard that
> they
>    will be helping form, avoiding anything that
> could be
>    construed as a promise to the vendor, etc.).
> 
> IMO.
> Ron Burk
> HighTechInfo.com, www.hightechinfo.com
> 
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