October 28 2008 Conference Call

Topic: R-button working meeting

Attendees

• Keith Hopper
• Iain Henderson
• Dean Landsman
• Doc Searls
• Joe Andrieu
• Charles Andres
• Asa Hardcastle
• Christopher Carfi
• Drummond Reed

Points

Asa:

• concerned about the increasing complexity of states. Closing of magnets symbolizing relationship = a relationship action has taken place.
• There should be two states: one open and one closed

Doc:

• We need to reach a temporary agreement has two states or more than two states
• What we don't do: take your money, checkbox, but that's all there is to the relationship ==> don't want this to be replicated on the customer side

Decision

• There are three states to the r-button: not visible, visible + open, and visible + closed
• The r-button is not visible if there are no VRM relationship actions available for the user to take on this screen/page
• The r-button is visible and open if VRM relationship actions are available (with an entity represented on or in the page), but none have been taken by the user
• The r-button is visible and closed if a user has taken a VRM relationship action associated with a represented entity
• An r-button will close when a user has taken a relationship action, regardless if the vendor subscribes to the supporting service, or is even aware of VRM
• An action is a "VRM action" if it is provided by a relationship service that is based on VRM-compliant standards
• A relationship service based on a VRM-compliant standard must allow a vendor to participate (e.g. reciprocate the user intention), thereby making the closing of the r-button meaningful. In other words, a true VRM action must allow the vendor to agree to your terms in a standard way

Follow up

• More discussion on personal data store
• Chris will take to-do to update the state transition diagram on the r-button spec page