[Openid-specs-risc] New Leadership for RISC WG

[Adam Dawes]

Hi again everyone,

As there haven't been any other nominations for WG chair, I would like to
again thank Marius and Annabelle for volunteering to congratulate them both
as the new co-chairs of RISC.

thanks,
AD

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:32 PM Adam Dawes <adawes at google.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Since we published our Implementers Draft of the RISC spec last year,
> there has been much activity from the RISC WG. We've had success with
> Google launching RISC Transmitter support at the beginning of the year and
> so far the spec seems to be holding up well with implementers at Google.
>
> But I've been waiting to make a call for final publication for two
> reasons. First, I think we should adjust the specs based on IETF RFCs that
> are in the process of getting ratified and second, I think we should get
> some operational deployments in place of the RISC implicit relationship
> using the user registration API.
>
> However, I've just recently rolled off of my position on Google's identity
> team and consequently will also be stepping down as chair of the RISC
> working group. I've reached out to Marius Scurtescu (Coinbase, formerly
> Google) and Annabelle Backman (Amazon) and I'm delighted that they are
> interested in chairing the work group going forward. I formally nominate
> them to take over as co-chairs. They have both been instrumental in
> defining the specs so far and have also participated extensively in the
> SecEvents WG at IETF.
>
> If anyone wants to nominate someone else for chair, please do so on the
> list by September 4. We can have a formal vote as necessary after that.
>
> It's been a great pleasure working with this community to get the RISC
> spec established so that we can better protect users. I wish the group luck
> moving forward.
>
> thanks,
> AD
>
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