Re: Oauth blog post

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

> 
> Do you think that corporate domination of "open" standards development is OK?
> 

The barrier for participation is low since there are no membership fees, etc. Nevertheless, those who participate in standardization efforts have to spend their time. So, typically those who participate for a longer period of time need to have some incentives. These incentives often come from working for a specific company.

We cannot force anyone to participate in any of our working groups. In the OAuth case we have lots of other people participating but they typically ask questions and provide implementation feedback rather than trying to steer the standardization work. 

Ciao
Hannes

PS: Eran was also working for a big corporation, namely Yahoo. I could imagine that Yahoo also had some incentives to pay Eran for his participation in this work.