I think that just means "this won't be very helpful in standing up your own DigID". It also says they're looking at providing more ongoing transparency.
Hard to say. The mission statement seems to be an attempt to create a 'post liberal synthesis', which sounds like Tony Gidden's neoliberal 'third way', but is so no specific it could mean just about anything.
https://palladiummag.com/2018/09/29/towards-the-post-liberal...
The subtitle is "Past, Present, and Future", but I'm really missing what the future will hold. All they mention is that "We’re not sure what the next community initiative will look like"
" Our intention is not only to advance our own agenda, but to help shape the future of the on-line world. For instance, non-technical issues are now shaping the future of the Internet as much as, if not more than, technical innovation."
Did they just say they were going to be funding politics and activism with most of the money?
I'm not seeing anything on the community leadership, board, voting etc. The only references I see are to Radius Networks.
So, the way I read the mission statement is:
We [Radius Networks] firmly believe that an open specification would help everyone, and we [Radius Networks] want to do it right. This is simply the proposal, now we [Radius Networks] would like feedback from the community.
Thanks for the summary. I tried reading the linked page, the articles, and the home site, but there's a certain type of language that I have trouble wading through. My eyes glossed over at all the platitudes and bureaucrat-speak. The goals sound admirable, and I hope they succeed. However, I think their message would be improved by getting to the point of what they plan to do, how they plan to do it, and how it will be different / better than the internet we know today.
> “To continue to demonstrate why tools like this are essential to our mission, we need to use them, while also holding ourselves accountable for doing so properly and in compliance with legal requirements,”
> “Strengthen the construction of the national ‘Internet + supervision’ system, and realize the integration and aggregation of data from supervision platforms by the end of 2022.”
I'll bet they're pleased with you-know-who's you-know-what.
This is an odd posting. It's a (very) short history of the reasoning behind and purpose of the Mir project at Canonical, but doesn't hint at the future of the project or the team.
It's a dictionary definition more or less, but the timing seems like it has a great deal of meaning (in the wake of the Unity abandonment).
Just to distill that statement into specifics, the "goal" as you see it literally says (1) they had no written record before, and now they will and (2) two other vendors did the actual work. There's nothing technical about it but it implies intent behind the recommendations.
IMO, that statement alone does illuminate a "solid solution", which is to reduce vendoring out some of these critical functions and gradually staff leadership with a mix of people who have significant hands-on experience with technology. Or more shortly, "care for properly."
I'm guessing the stated mission has been changed once or twice since it was founded.
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