[OpenID board] Agenda for 7/8/2008 ...

Mike Jones Michael.Jones at microsoft.com
Sun Jul 6 22:03:22 UTC 2008 

The most interesting thing (to me) that you wrote below is this:
As I have already explained, many businesses in Europe and in Asia will never wish to be (only/directly) members of an US Foundation. This is simply a reality of the market and a cultural fact.
One of the reasons that we need to have the OIDF board election soon, in fact, is to dispel the apparent misperception that OIDF is a US Foundation.  If you have that perception, after all, it's understandable that others would as well.  Indeed, OIDF was founded to promote and advance OpenID worldwide.  The OIDF's scope is worldwide -- not US-only.

For that reason, among others, it would be good to have motivated and capable people elected to the board from all regions of the world.  Maybe you can think about who you would like to encourage to have run from Europe, Snorri, and maybe Nat can think about who he'd like to encourage to stand for election from Asia.

Do you have any suggestions, in addition to the election, for helping the OIDF communicate to people that the OIDF's scope is international?

I also appreciate you working on ideas for the OpenID '09 program, but in the short term, next obvious step is for OpenID Europe to sign the OIDF local chapters agreement so that it will be clear that any trademarks held by OpenID Europe will be usable worldwide.  Can you make that happen soon?

                                                Thanks,
                                                -- Mike

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From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Snorri
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:34 AM
To: board at openid.net
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Hi Dick,

I know perfectly well how members vote within OIDF.

But as I do not know the list of the Members of OIDF-as that list is not accessible to the public-I cannot tell you if certain members have paid dues twice, but I would be surprised if they had.

As I have already explained, many businesses in Europe and in Asia will never wish to be (only/directly) members of an US Foundation. This is simply a reality of the market and a cultural fact.

These 22 members (I am hoping for a larger number, 80 to 100 in 2009) are to this day authorized to vote with OIDE. We can hope that in the near future this would have for them a greater significance than today, in particular after my recent interviews with the Presidency (France since this week http://www.ue2008.fr/PFUE/lang/en/accueil) of the European Community which seem promising. The EU Government would help OpenID, both by initiating a European normalization process, and by participating in the writing of the technical specifications.

As I have offered several times to the Board, it would be quite possible to set in place something large and quite good at the global level, with a system involving controlled sharing (this is what we are already doing in Europe with the National Chapters), a system within which each Chapter would bring in funding for the Foundation (meaning OIDF this time). In this way, a French company which would become Member of OpenID France, or an Argentinean business becoming a Member of OpenID Argentina (I use this example since the OpenID Foundation Argentina is in the process of being incorporated in Buenos Aires) would automatically also become a Member of OIDF.

Of course a legal and financial organization should be put in place beforehand.

Once again, all these topics are mentioned in the OpenID'09 program I am soon to present to the Board and the Community.

I remain, until then, at your disposal

-Snorri

De : board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] De la part de Dick Hardt
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Hi Snorri

Have they paid OIDF dues? If not, then they are not allowed to vote.

-- Dick

On 5-Jul-08, at 1:45 AM, Snorri wrote:

Gary,

+22 members of OIDE who have paid membership dues.

Regards

-Snorri

De : board-bounces at openid.net<mailto:board-bounces at openid.net> [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] De la part de Bill Washburn
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Gary,

There are currently 36 members of OIDF who have paid membership dues.

cheers,
-bill


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From: "Krall, Gary" <gkrall at verisign.com<mailto:gkrall at verisign.com>>
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Towards that end it might be very helpful to have an update as to the current Membership list/count.

Thanks,

Gary.

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From: board-bounces at openid.net<mailto:board-bounces at openid.net> on behalf of Mike Jones
Sent: Thu 7/3/2008 3:17 PM
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I'd also like to have a discussion on when we're going to have the board election.  Bill told me in private conversation that the contractors may be within days of enabling people to vote with their OpenIDs, which was the gating factor that delayed the election when we talked about it several months ago.  I'd put this before the scope discussion in the agenda order.

                                Thanks,
                                -- Mike

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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 2:12 PM
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Subject: [OpenID board] Agenda for 7/8/2008 ...

Hey Everybody,

Note: the call is at 10am PST on 7/8.

Agenda:

* General business (minutes approved, finance update)
* Statements about the nature of reciprocal IPR commitments to working
groups - Mike
* Discussion on future scope of OpenID Foundation - Everyone
* Additional items?

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- Scott
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