OpenID Foundation/Board/Minutes/2007-11-29
These are the minutes of the meeting of the board of the OpenID Foundation on 29th Nov 2007.
Present:
- Martin Atkins (scribe)
- Artur Bergman
- Johannes Ernst
- Scott Kveton (chair)
- David Recordon
- Drummond Reed
- Bill Washburn
Apologies:
- Dick Hardt
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Agenda
The following agenda was issued by Scott via email to the board mailing list.
- General business (approve minutes, financial update)
- IPR/NAA update - David, Bill
- Membership application/status - Bill
- IIW plans - Scott, Bill
- Discuss financial governance (raised separately by Johannes)
Approval of Minutes
Nobody had any particular beef with the minutes.
The minutes for the 1st Nov meeting were approved.
Finance Update
Scott gave an update on our finances.
IPR and NAC Update
The next draft of the IPR documents has been released. There have been some comments, which suggests that the current draft is not final.
Most of the retroactive non-assert documents for existing contributors are in, with a few notable exceptions which are sadly blocking completion. The new specs are currently considered to complete but is blocked on the IPR being finalized.
The board agreed on three major items that need revision in the current drafts:
- The language surrounding the use of wiki and other collaboration tools
by work groups.
- The decoupling of the trademark policy from the IPR document. (Process
section 5.3)
- The role and composition of the specifications council.
Of these items, the board was happy with the existing discussion on the first two. It was decided to add discussion on the third as an extra agenda item to the end of the meeting should time allow.
Membership Application Status
Bill has been working with Vidoop to get an app on the Foundation's website for becoming a member. Also under construction is a list of potential membership benefits for those members who aren't buying corporate board seats.
Bill will be communicating with various people to try to push for joining the foundation in some capacity.
IIW Plans
Assuming that all of the contributor agreements are signed, we have the okay from Kaliya to announce 2.0 Auth final on the first day of IIW. David will also prepare a blog post for openid.net.
It was agreed that the announcement cannot be made unless and until
- all* of the contributor agreements are in order. In the event that this
is not complete by the time the announcement is due, we will be forced to delay the announcement.
Financial Governance
Johannes posted the language for several motions via email prior to the meeting.
Motion 1: That the Treasurer be instructed to deliver prior to the next board meeting a full set of financial statements for the Foundation for all accounting periods including the most recent one.
Proposed by Johannes. Seconded by Scott. Passed unanimously.
Motion 2: That nobody other than the Executive Director of the Foundation may incur liabilities for the Foundation.
Motion 3: That the Executive Director only may incur liabilities for the Foundation to the extent foreseen in the then-current budget previously approved by the board.
Both Proposed by Johannes. Both Seconded by Martin. Both passed unanimously.
Specs Council
David explain that originally the specs council was defined to grow unbounded moving forward. This was distasteful to some because the council would be likely to grow out of control.
It was noted that the original charter of the foundation was that it would not be directly involved in the specs, so the existance of the specifications council retains the necessary separation. The board has a broader responsibility for other issues.
IPR Again
The board quickly returned to the IPR issue to make the following motion:
Motion 4: Subject to final feedback given by the board, which the board delegates to the IPR Task Force to incorporate into a final draft in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, the board accepts these IPR Policy and Process drafts prepared by the IPR Task Force.
Proposed Drummond. Second, thirded and fourthed by various folks including David and Artur. Motion passed.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be at IIW, with the venue, date and time to be confirmed.
The next telephone meeting will then be on the 20th Dec at 12pm PST.
