<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head><p>Don Thibeau</p><hr/><div><b>From: </b> Drummond Reed <director@informationcard.net>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:07:07 -0800</div><div><b>To: </b><don@oidf.org></div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: OIDF Board Copy of Mirror Resolutions from ICF Board</div><div><br/></div>No objection at all - I think open would be better.<br><br>=D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Don Thibeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:don@oidf.org">don@oidf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Any objection to putting this on our board open list versus board private<p>Don Thibeau</p>
<hr><div><b>From: </b> Drummond Reed <<a href="mailto:director@informationcard.net" target="_blank">director@informationcard.net</a>>
</div><div><b>Date: </b>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:08:39 -0800</div><div><b>To: </b>Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)<<a href="mailto:don@oidf.org" target="_blank">don@oidf.org</a>>; Brian Kissel<<a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com" target="_blank">bkissel@janrain.com</a>></div>
<div><b>Cc: </b><<a href="mailto:icf-board-private@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">icf-board-private@googlegroups.com</a>>; Scott David<<a href="mailto:scott.david@klgates.com" target="_blank">scott.david@klgates.com</a>>; Eric Sachs<<a href="mailto:esachs@google.com" target="_blank">esachs@google.com</a>></div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>OIDF Board Copy of Mirror Resolutions from ICF Board</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Don and Brian,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you know, the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and the Information
Card Foundation (ICF) have been collaborating since RSA in April 2009 on development
of a certification program that would work for both of our respective
technologies and communities. By September 2009, when we made our joint
announcement of the Open Identity Solutions for Open Government initiative at
Gov 2.0 in conjunction with the US GSA ICAM Subcommittee, our boards had
determined that we should collaborate on creating a single program that would meet the
requirements of the ICAM TFPAP (Trust Framework Provider Adoption Program). We
also believed that taking an open market approach to this program could serve many other trust communities who need similar (but
not identical) solutions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the Internet Identity Workshop last November, our boards
voted to create a Joint Steering Committee (JSC) to review the options and make
a recommendation back to both boards before the holidays. On December 21 the
JSC completed its work and voted unanimously to recommend that both boards pass
a set of "mirror resolutions" calling for the creation of a new non-profit entity to
serve in this trust framework provider role.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These JSC resolutions are included below, together with a
link to the public minutes of the ICF board meeting on January 8 at which they
were approved. We thank you for participating in that meeting as our guests. As
you know, the ICF board was not certain the JSC resolutions provided enough implementation
guidance to be fully actionable, so they asked me to work with Don and Scott David of K&L Gates to create a second set of "implementation
resolutions".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These resolutions were approved unanimously in a special ICF
board meeting today, which Don and Eric Sachs attended as our guests. Again I am including a copy below, together
with a link to the public meeting minutes. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I now convey both sets of mirror resolutions to you to ask for the OIDF
board's approval at your meeting this coming Wednesday. On behalf of the ICF board,
I thank you and your board for your collaboration with us in developing the Open
Identity Framework model, and I look forward to implementing the Open Identity
Exchange to realize the fruits of this collaboration and deliver an effective open
market solution for open identity assurance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">=Drummond
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">======================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drummond
Reed</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Executive
Director</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Information
Card Foundation</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">******* PART ONE: JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS ********</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Approved by the ICF Board of Directors January 8 2010</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minutes: <a href="https://wiki.informationcard.net/index.php/ICF_Board_Meeting_2010-01-08" target="_blank">https://wiki.informationcard.net/index.php/ICF_Board_Meeting_2010-01-08</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p>BE IT RESOLVED</p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal">That it is the sense of the
joint committee that a response to the U.S. government's request for
collaboration on certification as a means to facilitate adoption of open
identity technologies by government relying parties is consistent with the
foundations’ respective missions, purposes, and programs. </li><li class="MsoNormal">That leadership of the
foundations and their respective board members with respect to the
government’s development of technical and policy interoperability
standards will have a positive impact on overall global market adoption of
open identity technologies. </li><li class="MsoNormal">That the overall identity
ecosystem will benefit from the availability of open identity technologies
that support multiple certification models (e.g., self certification,
third party certification, hybrid models, etc.), multiple trust framework
provider choices, and opportunities for additional innovation in the
development, organization, and operation of open identity technologies. </li><li class="MsoNormal">That it is the sense of the
joint steering committee that a separate and independent entity should be
organized and operated for the purposes of addressing the needs of the
U.S. government, other public entities, and other trust communities regarding
the adoption of open identity technologies through research and
educational programs and initiatives and other types of enablement under
an open standards model.<span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> <span style="color: blue;">[This language is intended to address the statutory
requirements for exemption under section 501(c)(3). It may be that
the entity would qualify under 501(c)(6), but that might not be consistent
with other goals of the organization.] </span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">That it is the sense of the
joint steering committee that it would be consistent with the missions,
purposes, and programs of the respective foundations, and also in their
best interests, to provide a grant to assist in financing the initial
organization and operation of this entity that will engage in activities
that are consistent with and complementary to those of the foundations. </li><li class="MsoNormal">That this new entity should
be called the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) to reflect that it represents
an open market standards model for the exchange of self-certification or
third-party certification metadata describing any participant in the
open identity ecosystem.</li><li class="MsoNormal">That the OIX should be
self-governing and self-sufficient, and that it should have an arms-length
relationship with the foundations with regard to its legal structure,
finances, and operations. </li><li class="MsoNormal">That the OIX should be
organized and operated in a way that is robust enough to support existing
open identity technologies, but also flexible enough to accommodate,
cultivate, and incorporate new open identity technologies. </li><li class="MsoNormal">That, in the process of
identifying the entities and individuals that can best help OIX to achieve
its mission, purposes and programs, companies and individuals that
currently work with OIDF and ICF should be provided an opportunity to
opt-in to participate in the formation process.</li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">********* PART 2: IMPLEMENTATION RESOLUTIONS **********</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Approved by the ICF Board of Directors January 15 2010</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Minutes: <a href="https://wiki.informationcard.net/index.php/ICF_Board_Meeting_2010-01-15" target="_blank">https://wiki.informationcard.net/index.php/ICF_Board_Meeting_2010-01-15</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">BE IT RESOLVED</p>
<ol start="1" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal">That the Board acknowledges
its prior receipt, consideration and approval of the resolutions from the
Joint Steering Committee ("JSC") that was composed of
representatives of the ICF and OIDF (the “JSC Resolution”); </li><li class="MsoNormal">That, as an additional
mechanism for memorializing their further coordination, the OIDF and ICF
Boards are passing identical sets of resolutions (identical other than
with respect to conforming changes) (each a “Mirror Resolution”) of which
this is one; </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board desires, through this Mirror Resolution, to supplement the
recommendations of the JSC Resolution with additional suggestions and
guidance to inform the organization and operation of the new entity (“Open
Identity Exchange” or “OIX”) that will carry forward the program described
in the JSC Resolutions;</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board recommends that the board of OIX adopt a structure and
governance mechanisms that facilitate OIX establishing and maintaining an
orderly open identity services market that is transparent, scalable, and
based on open standards, while at the same time being as lightweight,
modular, and cost-effective as possible;</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board recommends that the OIX governance, organizational, and
membership model be as flexible as possible in order for OIX to best serve
the stakeholders of the open identity services market and to support
multiple fundraising options.</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board recommends that, in furtherance of the goal to create and
support an open identity services market that is responsive to market
forces while balancing the interests of all stakeholders, the board of OIX
follow a “phased” development strategy;</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board recommends that the first phase of this strategy be focused
primarily on meeting the U.S. government open identity assurance
requirements and timeline as a way of establishing an initial reference
trust framework in the identity market (the US ICAM TFPAP) because it is
based on broadly applicable identity assurance standards;</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board recommends that, in recognition of the importance of the market
in providing feedback to participants and driving innovation, this first
trust framework implementation be put in place as quickly as possible,
with the specific goal of enabling self-certification of the initial identity
providers to the US ICAM LOA 1 trust framework by 3 March 2009. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the Board recommends that the second phase of this strategy be focused on
the expansion of OIX attention and support to include other trust
communities that have already committed to working with OIX (e.g., PBS and
NPR) in order to demonstrate that the broad identity market supported by
OIX can simultaneously serve multiple trust communities with differing
requirements and encourage innovation across all of them.</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That,
conditioned on the approval of the Mirror Resolution by the OIDF Board,
the Board commits to a grant to be made to OIX in two installments: $25K
initially, to be provided to OIX within 10 days of its opening of a bank
account or as soon thereafter as feasible, and another $25K by the end of
July 2010.</span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
it is the sense of Board that OIX and the identity market would benefit if
the current ICF Executive Director served as the Acting Executive Director
of OIX, and that the Board approves his participation in OIX in that
capacity. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
it is the recommendation to the OIDF Board that it permit its Executive
Director to serve as the Acting Chairman of the OIX board. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
K&L Gates LLP be retained initially by ICF and OIDF as legal counsel
for the limited purpose of forming OIX, and that once OIX is formed, this
retainer be terminated and that it be recommended to the OIX Board that
K&L Gates LLP be retained by the OIX board as legal counsel for OIX. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">That
the ICF Executive Director is authorized to work in close collaboration
with the OIDF and its Executive Director to undertake the steps necessary
to organize and operate OIX according to these resolutions. </span></li></ol>
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