David Recordon speaks to the telephony community on how grassroots efforts by passionate users can be used to take the lead in the development of new standards. The availability of proprietary SDK's and API's are not enough. Grassroots community groups can be used as a catalyst to solve the problems corporate groups are not addressing. Mr. Recordan provides a number of examples where these efforts have been successful in the past, and identifies opportunities in the mobile space where similar efforts might bridge gaps between existing web technologies and mobile service providers.
David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart. He has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. In 2005, he collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the original development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the web. During a year and a half at VeriSign, he played an active role in refining and evangelizing OpenID, bringing it from an experimental technology to one that's been endorsed by major companies ranging from AOL to Microsoft, and implemented for over 120 million identities on the web. Mr. Recordon was recently recognized by Google and O'Reilly as the recipient of a 2007 Open Source Award for his efforts with OpenID.
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