Re: Oauth blog post

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> Sun, 29 July 2012 19:19 UTC

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Just a minor comment on this one: 

On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:20 AM, SM wrote:

>  "[the] working group at the IETF started with strong web presence. But as the
>   work dragged on (and on) past its first year, those web folks left along with
>   every member of the original 1.0 community. The group that was left was largely
>   all enterprise… and me."

The IETF allows open participation and, as such, everyone, including companies that develop enterprise software, are free to participate in the discussions. 

Do you think open participation is wrong?