<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2010-04-30, at 7:49 PM, Mike Jones wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The committee discussed the applicability of each of the three possible kinds of revenue that GI identified to the OIDF.<o:p></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i>Conference Fees:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i> We agreed that while we could investigate charging reasonable amounts for some OIDF events – perhaps for non-members to attend – that this both would not generate nearly enough revenue to be material to the operation of the foundation, and that doing this could work counter to our mission of building a widely deployed Internet identity solution.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i>Licensing and Certification:</i> First, the OIDF formed the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) to do certification for OpenID, and so any certification revenues would accrue to OIX, rather than OIDF at this point. Second, the ramp-up on certification is likely to take years, and so even if we were receiving the certification revenues, they would likely not be significant for at least two years.</li></ul></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>The Foundation could do Trademark licensing. We are spending a fair amount of money on protecting the brand.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i>Memberships:</i> Knowing that the other two classes of revenue were either irrelevant or insignificant is clarifying, because it makes clear that the foundation must have a structure that allows membership revenues to almost wholly fund the organization. Thus, the committee agrees that we should focus any restructuring efforts on a membership structure that both provides a stable funding basis for operating the foundation and for maximizing participation.</li></ul></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div></body></html>