<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b>Update re: OpenID Connect Milestones<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.25in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The OIDF Work Group for OpenId Connect has been making steady progress. OpenID Foundation Community Board Member Alan Tom has volunteered to help drive OpenID Connect launch plan and represent OpenID Connect to key companies identified by the Board as part of the 2011 outreach and adoption goals. Alan plans to pull together suggestions from plans developed by JanRain, Google, Ping Identity and others to solicit developer community feedback for the next three months. Planning for a hoped for end of year international roll out of OpenID Connect is underway by Nat Sakimura, Kick Willemse and John Bradley. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">As per the Board's direction we are taking a measured approach for testing with results available for a board level status discussion at a OpenID Summit planned for September. The Board will consider direct funding proposals including a update to <a href="http://openid.net">openid.net</a> to support a potential international launch.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">OpenID Connect 2011 Timeline</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">July: OpenId Connect implementers drafts of the specs available</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "> at the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://openid.net/specs" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">openid.net/specs</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; "> and the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; "><a href="http://svn.open.net/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">svn.open.net</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; "> sites</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">July: Initial OpenID Connect interop work at the Ping-hosted Summit in Colorado.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">August:Prototype implementations available for preliminary interop testing. Feedback from these implementations will be fed back to Allan and the OpenID Connect working group. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">September: Preliminary libraries available</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">September 19 (tentative): OpenID Summit and F2F Board Meeting (Bay Area Location TBD)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">September 20/21 The US National Strategy for Trusted Identity in Cyberspace's Identity Technology Standards Workshop </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">(Bay Area Location TBD)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">October 17: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">(tentative): OpenID Summit and F2F Board Meeting (Bay Area Location TBD)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">October 18- 20: IIW in Mountain View CA</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">October </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">(tentative): OpenID Summit (EU/UK Location TBD)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">November </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">(tentative): OpenID Summit (Tokyo Location TBD)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Notes;</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The IIW in mid-October is targeted as the coming out party for OpenID Connect. The summit in London the week before is the European coming-out party date.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The OpenID Summit in Tokyo will tentatively be in November, please complete the doodle poll sent by Nat. One proposal for the OpenId Summit in London is Monday morning, October 10<sup>th</sup> at the OASIS IDTrust event at CA’s facility at Ditton Manner. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; ">The US FICAM plans to create a profile for OpenID Connect.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Don Thibeau</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Executive Director </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://OpenID.net">OpenID.net</a> </span></font></div></body></html>