[OpenID board] Update regarding the next OpenID Summits

[Don Thibeau]

OpenID Board:

This is an update regarding the next OpenID Summits.

Please send your suggestions on speakers, topics, format, etc. (a sample invitation is below)
Please plan to attend an informal OpenID Board of Directors Dinner following each of the Summit events.

The sponsors of three next summits have structured agendas that focus on the use cases and themes noted below:

The May 2 Mountain View Summit theme is "OpenID Security and Relying Party Best Practices"; Co-Sponsored by Google and Symantec
The May 10 Munich Summit theme is "OpenID Technology and Global Adoption": Co-Sponsored by Google and Microsoft
The July 19 Colorado Summit theme is "OpenID in the Enterprise": Sponsored by Ping Identity

Thanks

Don 


Begin forwarded message:

From: Don Thibeau <don at oidf.org>
Date: March 17, 2011 11:46:24 AM EDT
To: paul_agbabian at symantec.com
Cc: Nico Popp <nicolas_popp at symantec.com>, Eric Sachs <esachs at google.com>
Bcc: John Ehrig <jehrig at inventures.com>
Subject: an invitation to speak at an event on May 2nd. 

Paul:

We had the opportunity to meet last weds morning courtesy of Nico Popp. This is to reiterate an invitation to join an event Symantec is hosting on May 2nd. 
We would be pleased to have you share your thoughts about identity and security with the group. It would be very helpful to have you participate as a panelist, speaker or moderator of discussions. 

The OpenID Foundation's 2011 series of OpenID Summits focus on use cases and topics of interest to key developers, executives and analysts in the identity industry. The next summit explores security and the user experience in open identity technologies.  It is co sponsored by Google and Symantec and will take place at 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA on the afternoon of May 2nd preceding the Internet Identity Workshop. We anticipate up to 80 attendees to include a variety of technical teams from Symantec and other Silicon Valley companies. The OIDF and co sponsors are reaching out for fresh perspectives from opinion leaders in the mobile platform, risk management and high assurance/multi factor identity space. 

While much attention has been directed at identity providers, we want to frame the OpenID security/user experience issues in a bucket we call relying parties best practices (RPBP)  

In December, The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) co sponsored a OpenID Policy Summit with invited experts from the American Bar Association's Committee on Identity and Harvard's Berkman Center for Law and the Internet. The May 2nd OpenID Security Summit is the technology counterpoint to the policy work done in Washington DC with the advocacy, academic and legal communities. The focus of both Policy and Security Summits are on RPBP (relying party best practices) a linchpin of any deployment or trust framework especially those involving government agencies. The user experience / security issues of RPBP are a key common denominator as they impact all stakeholders in the ecosystem and relies on OpenID for interoperability across a diverse set of use cases.

We plan to publish a briefing paper providing summaries of the presentations with feedback from the audience, links for more information, etc. The Security Summit paper will report on the Summit's discussion of RPBP (relying party best practices) and provide an overview of the security concerns of relying parties. In this way we hope to further the understanding of OpenID as it is today and how security concerns will impact OpenID as it evolves.

Feel free to call Nico or myself with any questions, comments, etc.

Don Thibeau
OpenID.net 
Executive Director






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