[OpenID board] January 20, 2010 OpenID Board Call Minutes

[Mike Jones]

January 20, 2010 OpenID Board Call Minutes

Present:
Don Thibeau, Executive Director
John Bradley
Mike Jones
Tony Nadalin
Mike Ozburn
Brian Kissel
Rob Harles
Daniel Jacobson
Chris Messina
Gary Krall
Nat Sakimura
Pamela Dingle
Marc Frons
Dick Hardt
Eric Sachs
Allen Tom
Andrew Nash
David Recordon
Luke Shepard
Joseph Smarr

Absent:
Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam
Raj Mata
Dermot O'Mahony

Visitors:
(none)


1.       2010 Board Calendar
The proposed calendar has fewer phone meetings and more face-to-face meetings of the full board.  We are now receiving numerous requests for presentations, largely in response to the government initiative.  Don plans to make these presentation opportunities available to board members, and do very few of them himself.  We are requesting that board members make a best effort to attend all board meetings.  We will approve the budget during the March 3rd meeting at RSA.  We plan to have a number of OpenID Summits during the year, which were valuable in the past year.

[Luke joined the call at this point.]

In discussion, we decided to substitute the Gov 2.0 conference in DC for OSCON - in part to put at least one of the meetings on the East Coast.  With that change, the schedule as proposed was adopted.


2.       Board Representatives
The new board members introduced themselves.  Of the community directors, Brian Kissel, Allen Tom, Joseph Smarr, and Daniel Jacobson were elected to two-year board terms.  John Bradley was elected to a one-year term, with Dick Hardt and Rob Harles having been appointed to one-year terms to fill community seats corresponding to the new corporate seats of LexisNexis and Ping Identity, which are filled by Dermot O'Mahony and Pamela Dingle, respectively.  Tony Nadalin informed the board that he will be representing Microsoft, with Mike Jones co-representing Microsoft for a transition period through the Internet Identity Workshop in May.

Don informed us that he's in touch with Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam of IBM, who is in India, to arrange for a proxy for the meetings he will not be able to attend.


3.       New Expectations for Board Members and New Processes
Board members are requested to notify the board via e-mail if they will not be able to attend a meeting and to identify a proxy.  Committees can have budgets and are expected to product results.  Global Inventures (GI) has tracking tools that can be used by committees.  Committee chairs will be expected to report on their committee's progress at every full board meeting.  Each director is expected to chair or be vice-chair of at least one committee.  A two-year term limit is proposed for leading a committee.  It is hoped that the chair and vice chair will have terms overlapping by a year, with each chair mentoring the current vice-chair to enable them to be chair the next year.  We plan to use the GI financial dashboard in this year for all board members to be able to view financial status on an ongoing basis.  Don reinforced our existing policy that unless there is a good reason for discussions to occur on the private board list, that they should happen on the public list.  In response to a question by Chris, Mike Jones restated the existing policy that people need not be on the board to be on committees, or indeed, to chair them.


4.       Committee Chairpersons and Members
We agreed to move selection of committee chairpersons and committee members to an e-mail and online process.  The board informally charged Don with ensuring that everyone has signed up for committees in a timely fashion.

[Joseph Smarr joined the call at this point.]


5.       Executive Committee
The board unanimously decided to have the executive committee consist of the four officers and the executive director.  David made the motion to that effect and Brian seconded it.  We decided, like last year, to select the officers by consensus.  We chose these officers by consensus:

  *   Chair:  Brian Kissel
  *   Secretary:  Chris Messina, with Mike Jones mentoring Chris through the end of May
  *   Treasurer:  Mike Ozburn

In the interest of time, a vote was held for the remaining position.  Nat Sakimura was selected as Vice-Chair from among a pool of three candidates by the following vote:  14 for Nat Sakimura, 3 for Dick Hardt, 1 for David Recordon, and 1 abstention.


6.       Certification Organization
The board discussed the joint steering committee's recommendation to form a separate legal organization to run the certification program for open identity protocols.  The Information Card Foundation voted to approve this recommendation earlier this month.  Brian moved and Tony seconded a motion to approve the committee's recommendations, which call for establishing an independent certification organization called the Open Identity Exchange (OIX).  The motion carried with 4 abstentions.

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