If there's a concern about bias then let's address it directly. Personally while I have a view on the technical direction, as the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee <meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I'm committed to making progress and taking an unbiased approach toward the contract proposal. While it seems like this thread started out of a miscommunication, I would hope that my message showed that I was trying to help move the proposal forward.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">--David</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Brian Kissel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com">bkissel@janrain.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">+1 to Nat's suggestion. While we know that both David and Joseph are very<br>
well qualified to lead this committee, if we do have differing<br>
perspectives on the future direction of the next iterations of OpenID, it<br>
would be good to have representatives from both perspectives involved in<br>
leading the process.<br>
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</div><div class="im">[mailto:<a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>] On Behalf Of Nat Sakimura<br>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:09 AM<br>
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Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Technical Committee Chairs<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">I have a little concern here. It might be a healthy thing to have<br>
discussions, but in the end, I really want v.Next and Connect camp to<br>
unite. In that respect, both chair and co-chair coming from Connect<br>
camp bothers me.<br>
<br>
You say that Joseph was close to be a co-chair, but the situation<br>
surrounding it has changed since then. At the time, there was only<br>
v.Next. Now, it looks like there are v.Next and Connect camp.<br>
<br>
Do not you think it is better to first ask v.Next camp people to step up?<br>
<br>
Would not somebody form v.Next camp step up?<br>
<br>
=nat<br>
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On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, David Recordon <<a href="mailto:recordond@gmail.com">recordond@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
> The committee elects its own chairs. A few months ago we elected Dick as<br>
> chair and me as co-chair. Joseph was really close to being co-chair.<br>
><br>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Nat Sakimura <<a href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com">sakimura@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> So, what is the process that chooses committee chairs?<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:01 PM, David Recordon <<a href="mailto:recordond@gmail.com">recordond@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>> > Today the Board passed a resolution directing the Executive Director,<br>
>> > Chair,<br>
>> > Technical Committee, and outside council to explore a contracting<br>
>> > relationship with Dick Hardt to move the v.Next work forward. Dick<br>
>> > brought<br>
>> > up how there could be a conflict during this process given that he is<br>
>> > the<br>
>> > chair of the Technical Committee. So for the time being I'll take on<br>
the<br>
>> > chair role with Joseph Smarr (who wasn't at the meeting but I spoke<br>
to a<br>
>> > few<br>
>> > hours ago) taking on the co-chair role.<br>
>> > Technical Committee, expect a followup email around starting to pull<br>
>> > together a set of deliverables and timeline over the next week. The<br>
>> > goal, as<br>
>> > I understand it, is to either have a contract in place or a<br>
>> > determination<br>
>> > that it is unfeasible by the end of the this month.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thanks,<br>
>> > --David<br>
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