Comment by mooreds

That's fair. And this type of standardization is far enough outside my wheelhouse that I don't know how to judge Mike's comments. He's pretty deep in that space, so I take it at face value. I don't think he'd have pushed this effort without there being value.

Looked on the OpenID mailing list site[0] and didn't find any discussion, so can't offer any other insight. I suppose you could contact Mike[1] and ask why it is such a big deal)?

> Unless we're now considering the IETF/W3C an international standards body?

Most of what I know about standards bodies I learned from Heather Flanagan, who is/was active in a lot of these and did a great presentation at Identiverse in 2022[2] about this very topic.

0: https://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo

1: https://self-issued.consulting/contact-me

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBP8ffezycY