Archive for November 2010
Notes from the Latest Technology Summit
Posted at 12:56 am on November 22, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
by Jesse Stay
Just before the latest Internet Identity Workshop, a few dozen members of the OpenID Foundation met at Facebook for a technology summit. Sessions ranged from the future of OpenID – looking at Connect and Artifact Binding – to details around profile data, signing, and encryption. Over the afternoon the group came to consensus around a number of different technical proposals.
You can find my notes from the day at http://bit.ly/b69H7d [see below] and we encourage you to continue discussion on the mailing lists. If you were at the Summit, please feel free to add anything we may have missed.
This entry was posted on Monday, November 22nd, 2010 at 12:56 am
Considering running for the OpenID Board?
Posted at 9:51 am on November 17, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
Dear OIDF Member:
The OpenID Foundation is committed to enabling, promoting and protecting technologies that enable users to control their online identity. This is an evolving space where the definition of online identity continues to shift. Community-elected representatives play an important part in the direction of the foundation and thus help shape the future of online identity.
At times, the board is a team of rivals — corporate and community agendas inevitably compete. Competition and collaboration serve to shine a light on what’s important. For the most part, the board is a group of like-minded individuals doing like-minded things: solving the vexing problems of online security and global adoption with open source tools and open minds for better ideas.
Please consider it an honor to join a board of highly regarded business executives who share their strategic insights during this time of accelerating growth. The collective expertise of this group is a tremendous asset to member companies, their customers and the community.
Cheers,
Don Thibeau
Executive Director
This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 at 9:51 am
OIDF Board Election Announcement
Posted at 3:43 pm on November 8, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
This is to announce the third election of OpenID Foundation community board members. The Foundation plays an important role in the evolution of Internet identity technologies. Its focus has been driving OpenID adoption through improvements in UX, data management, and helping relying parties andidentity providers expand into new application areas. The 2011 Board will take up the discussions now underway about how to update the mission and better engage emerging open standard technologies and initiatives. The election comes ata time when the market is looking for better deployability, usability, security, multi-channel support, and guidance on data and privacy management. Those elected will help determine what role the OIDF should play in helping facilitate faster and broader adoption of open standard identity systems.
Last year three community board members were elected to 2-year terms and so are not standing for election: Brian Kissel, Marc Frons, and Allen Tom. Other current community board members may seek re-election. They are Nat Sakimura, Chris Messina, David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, Daniel Jacobson,John Bradley,Robert Harlesand Dick Hardt. This is a good time to thank the current board members for their time, attention and leadership over the last year. For the purposes of the 2011 election, there will likely be 7 confirmed sustaining members: Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Ping Identity, Symantec, Yahoo!, and Facebook (other member companies are considering their status). Thus, we will likely be electing five community members to the Board of Directors (the final determination of the number of sustaining directors and community directors to be slated will be made at the time the voting is opened). The four candidates receiving the most votes will be elected to 2-year terms. One will be elected to a 1-year term. In order to be eligible for election, your candidacy must have been seconded by at least three other members.
All members of the OpenID Foundation are eligible to nominate themselves, second the nominations of others who self-nominated, and vote for candidates. If you’re not already a member of the OpenID Foundation, we encourage you to join now athttps://openid.net/foundation/members/registration. Voting and nominations are conducted using the OpenID you registered when you joined the Foundation. Log in athttps://openid.net/foundation/members/ with your OpenID to participate in thenomination and voting. If you are already a member, you will receive an email advising you the election is open and how to participate. Please refer to theelection FAQ for additional information. If you experience problems participating in the election or joining the foundation, please send an . The election will be conducted on the following schedule:
· Nominations open: Monday, November 15
· Nominations close: Monday, November 29
· Election begins: Wednesday, December 1
· Election ends:Wednesday, December 15
· Results announced by:Wednesday, December 22
· New board terms start:Saturday, January 1
Times for all dates are Noon, U.S. Pacific Time.
Board participation requires a substantial ongoing investment of time and energy. It is a volunteer effort that should not be undertaken lightly. Should you be elected, expect to be called upon to serve both on the board and on its committees where the work of the foundation is conducted. If you’re committed to OpenID and advancing digital identity and are a person who works well with others, we encourage your candidacy. The OIDF’s Executive Committee has suggested a few questions candidates may want to publically address in their candidate statements:
1. What is your view of the mission of the OpenID Foundation?
2. What are the key opportunities you see for the OpenID Foundation in 2011?
3. How will you demonstrate your commitment to the work of the foundation in terms of resources, focus and leadership?
4. Whatwould you like to see accomplished over the next year, and how do you personally plan to make these things happen?
5. What resources can you bring to the foundation to help the foundation attain its goals?
6. What current or pastexperiences,skills, or interests will inform your contributionsand views?
Candidates can address these questions in their election statements on various community mailing lists and athttp://openid.net – , and . Please forward questions, comments and suggestions to me.
Don Thibeau
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
This entry was posted on Monday, November 8th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Introducing Jesse Stay
Posted at 7:41 am on November 4, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
The OpenID Foundation is pleased to welcome Jesse Stay as our first tech writer.
I asked Jesse what got him excited about about working with us:
I chose to write for the Foundation because the world needs to understand this stuff. There are so many organizations beyond just the Facebooks and Googles and Microsofts (and many other tech companies) of the world which need to know they can be a part of this effort as well. In order to do that we need to present it in a way they can understand. As a developer first and writer second, I feel I can help with this effort and bridge that gap, hopefully translating some of the harder tech language into language that makes much more sense to the rest of the world. I hope, as a result, that the Foundation can in turn, make it completely clear why every organization, tech or not, should be a part of this effort to standardize the technologies we use to identify ourselves.
Jesse will be a resource for the OpenID Connect initiative and other tech committee working groups to make sure those discussions are available to everyone. He’s pulling together his notes from the OpenID Technology Summit at Facebook — you’ll see them onopenid.net soon.
You can find Jesse blogging atstaynalive.com and follow him on Twitter at @Jesse.
This entry was posted on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 at 7:41
From wiki.openid.net/w/page/32892328/Tech%20Summit%2010-2010%20Notes 15 March 2012