I am slightly out of tune regarding this thread. My apologies. However I have one related question.<div><br></div><div>1) I had heard about a year back that the original founders of OpenID, and if I understood this correctly includes David Recordon.</div>
<div>2) I also heard about a year back that the original founders had a veto rights on the decisions made on the OpenID board. </div><div>3) Can the board clarify whether I am right or wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>And If I am right then my request to David recordon is that please do take a more democratic stand on these matters.</div>
<div>Thank you so much</div><div>Santosh Rajan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:33 PM, David Recordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:recordond@gmail.com">recordond@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">It seems that it was completely a misunderstanding. Given that the Board wanted us to move forward quickly, I was just trying to help make that happen.<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:58 AM, John Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jbradley@mac.com" target="_blank">jbradley@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>David,</div><div><br></div>My recollection is that Dick said that being part of a decision to direct funds to himself would be a conflict, so he recused himself from the vote.<div>
<br></div><div>I understood Scot's reply to be that resigning from the board/committee was not required. That the bylaws contained other mechanisms to deal with such a conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>I am assuming that the conflict or lack there of will be dealt with as part of the contract/SOW process.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If there is no contract/SOW there is no conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a issue with Dick remaining chair I expect the director to inform the Committee and a new election to occur in a democratic fashion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Committee can also decide to replace the chair at any time independent of conflict recommendations from Council/ED.</div><div><br></div><div>So I did consider your note a touch over eager. I do understand that it was perhaps partially motivated by conversations I am unaware of.</div>
<div><br></div><div>John B.</div><div><br><div><div><div></div><div><div>On 2010-05-20, at 6:40 AM, David Recordon wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div>Sorry, when I spoke with Don, Brian, and Scott after the meeting they were all under the impression that this was the case.<div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Dick Hardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com" target="_blank">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I stated I had a conflict as chair of the technical committee to direct funds to myself from the technical committee budget. I did not state that I was stepping down as chair of the tech committee, nor did anyone suggest that I should.<br>
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My understanding is that the technical committee was to review the statement of work. I predict that continuing on as chair of the technical committee would be beneficial in performing the work.<br>
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I'm disappointed that you did not discuss your proposed path before sending out this email.<br>
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I will send out a draft SOW to the Tech Comm and schedule a call to discuss soon.<br>
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-- Dick<br>
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On 2010-05-19, at 11:01 PM, David Recordon wrote:<br>
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> Today the Board passed a resolution directing the Executive Director, Chair, Technical Committee, and outside council to explore a contracting relationship with Dick Hardt to move the v.Next work forward. Dick brought up how there could be a conflict during this process given that he is the chair of the Technical Committee. So for the time being I'll take on the chair role with Joseph Smarr (who wasn't at the meeting but I spoke to a few hours ago) taking on the co-chair role.<br>
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> Technical Committee, expect a followup email around starting to pull together a set of deliverables and timeline over the next week. The goal, as I understand it, is to either have a contract in place or a determination that it is unfeasible by the end of the this month.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> --David<br>
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