The Foundation can be seen as the sum of three parts; the painstaking specifications of working groups, the combined efforts at adoption and the stewardship of IPR. We take this opportunity to thank departing board member Kick Willemse for his service to the Foundation and the OpenID Community. Kick’s business and marketing savvy will continue to be important assets to our international outreach. We will continue to rely on his advice and look forward to Kick’s continued participation in OpenID and OIX events.

2013 will see significant traction in three OpenID protocols that will help define internet identity. OpenID Connect, Account Chooser and Backplane will be important tools for developers and architects building the open solutions that expand existing services and enable more trusted online transactions. Like the rapidly changing markets we serve, the OpenID Foundation evolves at the pace and at direction of its board. Since its inception almost seven years ago, the OpenID Foundation tracks the growing interest and importance of digital identity in our personal and professional lives.

88 members voted in this election, casting a total of 313 votes. The results (in order of votes received) were:
Nat Sakimura 78
John Bradley 60
Michael B. Jones 60
George Fletcher 55
Henrik Biering 35
Michael Schwartz 25

Regards,

Don Thibeau

The explosion of enterprise apps has made managing access and identity needlessly complex. Users are frustrated with juggling multiple log-ins, and enterprise IT is frustrated with managing secure access across all of these apps. Salesforce.com is collaborating with other OpenID Foundation industry leaders to make OpenID Connect more viable for the modern enterprise, with its unique security needs, increasing numbers of connected apps and sprawling mobile device users.

The proliferation of a mature, enterprise-ready OpenID Connect will ultimately be a win-win for technology companies, enterprises and app developers. For their part, Salesforce has built OpenID Connect into its innovative new cloud service that will provide identity and access management services for Web and mobile applications. OpenID Foundation is a non-profit standards development organization focused on developing open identity protocols that provide for easy to use, secure user centric solutions to the challenges of online identity.

WHERE:
Google UK, Churchill Square Room, Level 1
123 Buckingham Palace Road
SW1W 0 Westminster
United Kingdom
Westminster, United Kingdom

REGISTRATION: http://oidf_london_jan_22.eventbrite.com/

AGENDA:
9:30- Registration and Welcome- Don Thibeau, Executive Director
10:00- OpenID Connect Overview- John Bradley, Co Chair OpenID Connect Working Group
10:45- Backplane Protocol Overview- Greg Keegstra and Bryce Hamrick, Backplane Protocol Working Group
11:30- Account Chooser Overview- Adam Dawes and Tim Bray, Account Chooser Working Group
12:00- Lunch- all

Last year two community board members were elected to 2-year terms and so are not standing for election:
• Greg Keegstra
• Axel Nennker

Other current community board members may seek re-election. They are:
• Nat Sakimura
• Mike Jones
• John Bradley
• Kick Willemse
• George Fletcher

For the purposes of the 2013 election, there are 6 confirmed sustaining members: Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Ping Identity, Symantec, and Verizon. Thus, we will be electing 5 community members to the Board of Directors to bring the total number of community members to 7. To preserve the staggered election structure so that half of the community board members will be elected every year, the 4 candidates (half the number of community members, rounded up) receiving the most votes will be elected for 2-year terms and the candidate receiving the next amount of votes will be elected for a 1-year term, resulting in 3 board members being elected in the subsequent election given a stable number of sustaining members. In the case of a tie between the candidates receiving the 4th and 5th number of votes, both will receive 1-year terms. In order to be eligible for election, a candidate must be seconded by at least three other members.

The election will be conducted on the following schedule:
Nominations open: Monday, January 7, 2013
Nominations close: Monday, January 21, 2013
Election begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Election ends: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Results announced by: Wednesday, February 13, 2013
New board terms start: Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Times for all dates are Noon, U.S. Pacific Time.

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 at https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration.

Voting and nominations are conducted using the OpenID you registered when you joined the Foundation. If you are already a member, you will receive an email from director@oidf.org advising you that the election is open and how to participate. You will need to log in with your OpenID membership credentials at https://openid.net/foundation/members/ to participate in the nomination and voting. If you experience problems participating in the election or joining the foundation, please send an email to help@oidf.org right away.

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 open 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 are the key opportunities you see for the OpenID Foundation in 2013?
2. How will you demonstrate your commitment to the work of the foundation in terms of resources, focus and leadership?
3. What would you like to see accomplished over the next year, and how do you personally plan to make these things happen?
4. What resources can you bring to the foundation to help the foundation attain its goals?
5. What current or past experiences, skills, or interests will inform your contributions and views?

Candidates can address these questions in their election statements on various community mailing lists, especially openid-general@lists.openid.net. Please forward questions, comments and suggestions to me at don@oidf.org

Regards,

Don Thibeau
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation

P.S. Members should also know that the foundation will be holding a vote to approve a second set of Implementer’s Drafts of the OpenID Connect specifications soon. An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. We expect the candidate specifications to be ready for the 45 day public review period by the end of this month, meaning that the vote will occur in February. Watch the announcements at http://openid.net/ and your mailbox for announcements about this upcoming review and vote.

Hilton Atlanta
255 Courtland Street, NE
Atlanta, GA 30303

Sunday, November 4, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (EST)

Non Members are welcome to attend, but must be aware of the OIDF IPR policy.

See details and registration forms at: http://connect-ietf-85.eventbrite.com/

Bluewater Tech Talk Room
Google Building 1220
1220 Charleston Road
Mountain View, CA

Lunch is at 11:30am and the meeting starts at 12:30pm.

Non Members are welcome to attend, but must be aware of the OIDF IPR policy.

You can find the details and register at: http://connect-wg-oct-2012.eventbrite.com

Growing from industry cooperation over the last two years, Backplane Protocol has evolved quickly and is now a mature specification. Backplane Protocol serves as a “message bus” for social applications, enabling applications developed by disparate vendors to communicate with each other in real-time. It builds on proven and popular open standards work by leveraging technologies such as OpenID, OAuth, and Portable Contacts, reducing the need for developers to learn and develop against other vendors’ proprietary APIs.

Announced July 16, 2012 at the OpenID Foundation Summit in Vail, Colorado,  this new OpenID work group is seeking additional input and participation from the world wide OpenID community, ultimately enabling application developers and systems integrators to bring more robust solutions to websites faster and more cost effectively.

With the launch of the OpenID Backplane Protocol Work Group, we invite the OpenID community to help greatly expand current use cases and to drive the standard forward. For parties interested in participating in the work group, please join the mailing list and complete an intellectual property agreement.

You can learn more about the adoption and implementation of the Backplane Protocol at http://backplanex.com. Follow @OpenID on Twitter to stay up-to-date on all of the OpenID work groups and events.

Both session were very well attended.

We decided to record some of the session. It was an on-the-fly decision, so not all session were recorded and some had glitches, but I hope it is better than nothing.

So here they are!

OpenID Status Update

Introduction to OpenID Connect

Business drivers for BYOI

Note: I lost the audio of the first minute. Sorry.

AccountChooser.com

Leveraging OpenID within an IDSaaS Model

There are many emerging applications for using OpenID in this way and Vikas talks about a number of use cases for the Enterprise including:

Front-end authN into IDaaS using OpenID
SSO to OpenID Protected Apps from IDaaS Portals
User Verification of Street Identity

He also spoke about use cases for Service Providers who interact with both Consumer and Enterprise Users.

See the presentation: Leveraging OpenID within an IDaas Model.