[OpenID board] September 23, 2009 OpenID Executive Committee Call Minutes

[David Recordon]

Mike showed me an email I sent inferring that I wasn't actually on the call.
 I guess the notes just sounded really familiar!
--David

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM, David Recordon <recordond at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the notes, I think I was on the phone for part of this meeting.
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>wrote:
>
>>  *September 23, 2009 OpenID Executive Committee Call Minutes*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Attendees:*
>>
>> Mike Jones
>>
>> Nat Sakimura
>>
>> Brian Kissel
>>
>> Don Thibeau, Executive Director
>>
>>
>>
>> *Absent:*
>>
>> David Recordon
>>
>> Scott Kveton
>>
>> Raj Mata
>>
>> * *
>>
>> *Visitors:*
>>
>> John Ehrig, Global Inventures
>>
>> Mike Ozburn
>>
>>
>>
>> *1.       **Executive Committee Membership Changes*
>>
>> At the next full board meeting we plan to vote to appoint Nat as
>> Vice-Chair and Mike Ozburn as Treasurer.  We propose that Nat continue to
>> act as international Liaison until after the next election occurs.  In the
>> context of international interest in OpenID, Don reported that a number of
>> non-US governments have contacted him and asked for information about other
>> potential government adoptions of OpenID.
>>
>>
>>
>> *2.       **Membership and Financial Status Review*
>>
>> Don will be presenting a review of our membership and financial status at
>> the next board meeting.
>>
>>
>>
>> *3.       **US Government Initiative Update*
>>
>> John Bradley is continuing to work on the profiles, despite no longer
>> being compensated by the OIDF, nor to our knowledge, by the ICF.  Don is
>> trying to arrange for some government funding to be directed to John, to
>> assure continuity of the effort.
>>
>>
>>
>> Vivek Kundra has informed Don that some additional pilot sites are being
>> considered, some under the auspices of the White House and some not.
>> Furthermore, some may be at higher levels of assurance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Progress is occurring on the trust framework development process.  We are
>> continuing to do this work jointly with the ICF, both to share resources,
>> and to draw upon additional expertise to support our efforts.  In
>> particular, we need legal help on a volunteer basis.  We will be sharing
>> this effort with the Center for Democracy, among others, next week in DC.
>> Don will also be talking with Brett McDowell of Kantara about potential
>> collaboration opportunities in this area as well.  We want our trust
>> framework provider application to be general enough to be applicable in
>> contexts outside US Government uses, if possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> One measure of the US Government’s commitment to this effort that we will
>> be closely monitoring is whether the government funds additional pilot
>> projects and John Bradley’s efforts.  As they say, “money talks”.
>>
>>
>>
>> *4.       **openid.net Website*
>>
>> Our web site was updated, thanks to hard work by Chris Messina.  There was
>> a consensus that the full board should pass a motion officially thanking
>> Chris for his significant contribution and work above-and-beyond the call of
>> duty.
>>
>>
>>
>> *5.       **Bylaws and IPR Document Updates*
>>
>> We will have updated versions of the Bylaws and IPR documents to approve
>> at the next full board meeting.  Don committed to getting versions ready for
>> votes to the board by a week before the full board meeting so that we can
>> review these documents with our respective legal counsels.
>>
>>
>>
>> *6.       **Inventory of Existing IPR Agreements*
>>
>> John Ehrig has collected and will be publishing an inventory of existing
>> signed IPR documents.  The next step will be to determine who else we should
>> have agreements from and to work to obtain them.
>>
>>
>>
>> *7.       **OpenID Trademark*
>>
>> We have obtained a legal review from Scott Blackburn on the issues that we
>> need to tackle to defend the OpenID trademark.
>>
>>
>>
>> *8.       **Date and Topics for In-Person Board Meeting*
>>
>> We are planning to piggy-back our in-person board meeting in November to
>> the end of IIW.  It will likely be Thursday afternoon and Friday morning –
>> November 5 and 6.  Don and John are working on a schedule and proposed
>> topics for the board meetings for the remainder of the year.
>>
>>
>>
>> *9.       **Extension of Don’s Contract*
>>
>> The executive committee unanimously extended Don’s contract for a term of
>> another six months.
>>
>>
>>
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