[OpenID board] September 8, 2022 OpenID Board Call Notes

[Mike Jones]

September 8, 2022 OpenID Board Call Notes

Present:
Mike Jones
Luis Da Silva
Naveen CM
Nat Sakimura
Don Thibeau
Mike Leszcz
Gail Hodges
John Bradley
Kosuke Koiwai
Wes Dunnington
George Fletcher
Nancy Cam-Winget
Asish Jain
Vittorio Bertocci
Bjorn Hjelm
Takehisa Shibata

Absent:
Filip Verley

Guests
Tom Smedinghoff


1.       News
A major financial player is in the process of joining the board.  We may have another board member soon who is deeply involved in certification.

The ETSI liaison agreement is at the signature phase.

We plan to publish a second draft of the healthcare whitepaper.

The strategic taskforce has been active.  Gail invited other board members who are interested to join.

Wireframes of an updated website design are being produced.


2.       Budget
We have a cash balance of $1.3 million.  Renewals are at 92%.  Certification revenues are at 120% of projections.  We continue budgeting conservatively.


3.       Open Wallet Foundation
The Linux Foundation plans to announce intent to form the Open Wallet Foundation (OWF) at their conference next week.  We are proposing to provide a quotation for their press release expressing intent to join.  We are also requesting that they reciprocally join the OpenID Foundation.  Actually joining the OWF would be a separate decision.

Nat said that the OWF plans to produce open source code with which to build wallets.  By joining, we could potentially encourage them to use OpenID standards.  Also, if there are new standards to be built, we could encourage them to create them in the OpenID Foundation.  Car manufacturers and credit card players are involved, as well as government representatives.

Vittorio observed that what people mean by "wallet" can greatly vary.  Kosuke said that they don't appear to be focused on "crypto wallets" at present.  Wallets can hold many different kinds of things.  What kinds of wallets to enable is still under discussion.  Nat said that we want to be in a position to influence those decisions.  Mike Jones noted that the Executive Committee recommended that we be in a position to influence.

The resolution to provide a quotation for the formation intent announcement unanimously passed.


4.       Brazilian Recertification Exemption
Gail described a request from the Brazilian certification authorities for a discounted price for Brazilian recertification.  We've been in negotiation with them on a plan that works well for everyone and establishes the right incentives.  The exception would only be for recertifications and would be for a limited time duration.  Chicago Advisory Partners (CAP) would become a board member.  They would handle pre-payment for the Brazilian financial institutions recertifying.  We would offer a discounted $2,000 non-member price when pre-paid.  CAP asserts that the regulatory mandates for certification would not change.  This would still cover our costs.  It wouldn't change our plans to eventually also enable third-party certification, where desired.

Mike Jones spoke in favor of the plan.  He believes that having CAP join the board could be of high value, in terms of what we would learn and how it might apply to other markets.  Wes asked if CAP is serving any other markets.  Gail and Mike Leszcz don't think so.  CAP might be a great partner when discussing certification opportunities with other markets, such as Saudi Arabia.

The resolution, as amended, passed unanimously.


5.       Whitepapers
We've published five whitepapers recently: FAPI, OIDC4VC, Healthcare, Government Landscape, IoT.  Some are undergoing revisions.

There's a new proposed whitepaper on privacy which we would do in partnership with Kantara and potentially others, such as EPIC.  Heather Flanagan has agreed to be the lead editor.  We would reallocate some of our marketing funds towards funding this whitepaper.  The executive committee recommended pursuing this whitepaper project.  Wes asked if this would come out as a joint whitepaper with equal billing.  Gail said that it would.  Gail thought that the robust engagement from the Kantara Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credential (PEMC) WG would be valuable, as would our engagement with Heather.

Mike Jones, as our last liaison representative to Kantara, moved that we pursue this work with them.  John seconded the motion.  The motion passed unanimously.


6.       Government Engagements
Gail briefly called out several government-related engagements in progress, including several with the EU, the Financial Stability Board of the G20, several with the US, and the security analysis of FAPI 2.0.

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