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Posted at 9:36 am on January 3, 2012 by jfe
This is to announce the 2012 election of OpenID Foundation community board members. The Foundation plays an important role in the evolution of Internet identity technologies. 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 four community board members were elected to 2-year terms and so are not standing for election:
• Nat Sakimura
• Mike Jones
• John Bradley
• Kick Willemse
Other current community board members may seek re-election. They are:
• Allen Tom
• Axel Nennker
• Chris Messina
Brian Kissel has indicated he will likely not be a candidate. This is a good time to thank Brian, and all the current board members, for their time, attention and leadership over the last year.
For the purposes of the 2012 election, there are 5 confirmed sustaining members: Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Ping Identity, and Symantec. Thus, we will be electing 2 community members to the Board of Directors for 2-year terms. In order to be eligible for election, your candidacy must have been seconded by at least three other members.
The election will be conducted on the following schedule:
Nominations open: Monday, January 9
Nominations close: Monday, January 23
Election begins: Wednesday, January 25
Election ends: Wednesday, February 8
Results announced by: Wednesday, February 15
New board terms start: Thursday, March 1
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. Log in at https://openid.net/foundation/members/ with your OpenID to participate in the nomination and voting. If you are already a member, you will receive an email advising you the election is open and how to participate. If you experience problems participating in the election or joining the foundation, please send an email to help@oidf.org.
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 publicly address in their candidate statements:
1. What is you view of the opportunity of the OpenID Foundation?
2. What are the key opportunities you see for the OpenID Foundation in 2012?
3. How will you demonstrate your commitment to the work of the foundation in terms of resources, focus and leadership?
4. What would 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 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 and at http://openid.net – especially openid-general@lists.openid.net, and via blog@oidf.org. Please forward questions, comments and suggestions to me.
Don Thibeau
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
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Posted at 5:47 pm on December 16, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
Dear Members,
Thank you for voting for those who will represent you at this pivotal time for OpenID. This is to introduce the newly elected community directors of the OpenID Foundation Board. In 2011 Brian Kissel and Allen Tom will be fulfilling the second year of their terms as community representatives. Marc Frons has resigned from the second year of his service because of pressing business issues at the New York Times.
Mike Jones, Chris Messina, Nat Sakimura and John Bradley bring deep domain expertise in online identity to their board service. I think it’s fair to say their election reflects a community-wide acknowledgement of the consistency and quality of their contributions in recent years. The election of Kick Willemse and Axel Nennker signals an important shift towards more international leadership on the board. At last week’s Identity Next Conference and at the Identity Summit in Geneva, Nat, John, Kick and Axel led discussions expanding a more global view of OpenID’s adoption and updating its technology with our colleagues in the EU. Nat, Mike, Kick and John have been elected to two years terms. David Recordon will represent Facebook in 2011.
It’s important to acknowledge the contributions of Luke Sheppard, Mike Ozburn, Dick Hardt, Joseph Smarr, Daniel Jacobson and Rob Harles. Each contributed the energy, talent and diversity of views that makes the foundation an occasionally frustrating, increasingly complex and unique resource in online identity. Because of their efforts, the 2011 board starts the new year with a mandate for building momentum around the merged AB/Connect working group and the restructuring the OIDF to be a more effective, more international organization.
Technology development and board deliberations rarely follow a graceful upward curve. With the push/pull of competing business models and the cross jurisdictional impact of online identity, it’s easy to underestimate the time and commitment required of directors to reconcile corporate, community and global interests in a rapidly changing identity ecosystem. The board has important work to do right from the start of 2011. It must leverage and deploy the unique assets of the foundation, its leadership as a convener of OpenID Summits, its authoritative voice in standards development, and most importantly its growing worldwide community.
This is to you to engage with this new board from the start. We will soon publish a calendar of OpenID Summits, reorganize our governance and advance the utility of our “product” through the AB/Connect working group. Blog your views at openid.net, serve on work groups and contribute to the development of one of the most important technologies of our time.
Don Thibeau
Executive Director
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on Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 5:47 pm and is filed under Foundation.
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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
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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 and identity 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 at a 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 Harles and 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 at https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration. Voting and nominations are conducted using the OpenID you registered when you joined the Foundation. Log in at https://openid.net/foundation/members/ with your OpenID to participate in the nomination and voting. If you are already a member, you will receive an email from director@oidf.org advising you the election is open and how to participate. Please refer to the election FAQ for additional information. If you experience problems participating in the election or joining the foundation, please send an email to help@oidf.org. 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:
- What is your view of the mission of the OpenID Foundation?
- What are the key opportunities you see for the OpenID Foundation in 2011?
- How will you demonstrate your commitment to the work of the foundation in terms of resources, focus and leadership?
- What would you like to see accomplished over the next year, and how do you personally plan to make these things happen?
- What resources can you bring to the foundation to help the foundation attain its goals?
- 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 and at http://openid.net – especially openid-general@lists.openid.net, and via blog@oidf.org. Please forward questions, comments and suggestions to me.
Don Thibeau
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
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Posted at 12:46 pm on September 29, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
The OpenID Foundation formed the Retail Advisory Committee to provide input to and get feedback from Retailers looking to leverage OpenID and related technologies to serve customers better and achieve improved business results.
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Posted at 3:45 pm on September 23, 2010 by Amanda Richardson
As mentioned earlier on some of the foundation’s lists, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, division of National Library of Medicine/NIH, has deployed a hybrid login using multiple options including Google, Verisign and PayPal via OpenID, NIH proprietary, eRA, and Shibboleth. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) hybrid login facility is just one example of the leadership NIH has shown in identity management in the government space. Other OpenID providers are also in the process of being certified for use on the NCBI website.
Google’s work at the NCBI/NIH is an example of collaboration fostered by the OpenID Foundation over the two years. The NIH, OpenID Foundation and participating community members and companies have recently begun some exciting work to disambiguate authors of scholarly works using the OIX Trust Framework, the newly formed Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) organization and the National Library of Medicine. NIH/NLM is part of a public private effort to use OpenID and other protocols to help validate authorship. I encourage those interested to become engaged with this transformative work.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have a history of innovation in the area of federated identity management. It has accepted Shibboleth logins from the InCommon federation for over two years, and added OpenID support this year. The OpenIDs it accepts have been certified by the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) to meet the requirements of the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management (FICAM) subcommittee of the Federal CIO Council. Google, PayPal, and other OpenID identity providers were among the first to be certified under the FICAM schema.
NIH offers an innovative federated login service called iTrust, that provides a proven and cost-effective federated login solution to departments and agencies across the federal government. Since June, there have been 18,900 new NIH iTrust user logins, 77% of which are OpenIDs. This is even though there was no announcement of the new login capability. Via iTrust, NIH is openly encouraging other agencies to adopt the use of OpenID and other portable identity credentials. The NIH, OpenID Foundation member companies are playing a key role in the future of online identity for this global community of authors, librarians and researchers.
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Posted at 1:58 am on February 20, 2009 by Chris Messina
The OpenID Foundation is happy to introduce Don Thibeau as our new executive director. Don is taking over from Bill Washburn who helped get the Foundation off the ground.
Even with the substantial momentum that OpenID has gained already in 2009, Don has his work cut out for him beyond our two main priorities of improving user experience and security along with increasing our outreach to and engagement of website operators and end users. To get a sense for his priorities and anticipated plans for the Foundation, I asked him some introductory questions:
- Q: How did you first learn about OpenID and what interests you in the technology?
A: I have been working with web transactions, privacy policy and identity validation for a while now. So I’ve been watching OpenID from the sidelines. I’ve wanted to take a deeper dive in how social networks overlays those issues. The Foundation is at the intersection of those issues and more. There’s no better place to be.
- Q: What challenges do you think OpenID faces that it must confront in 2009?
A: First and always, continue to balance the interests and be responsive to all stakeholders, community members, and corporate sponsors, etc.
Second, to deal effectively with success. That means to make sure the Foundation can responsibly sustain and accelerate the momentum now underway.
- Q: What technologies or services suggest where you think the web will go over the next several years?
A: I know we at the beginning of the era of social networking. But I’m not smart enough to know where the web will go. That’s one of the things I like about this space.
I do know the OpenID can be a “Front Door” for the web experience for people, for users, for members across the board.
- Q: What experience do you have that you intend to bring to the OIDF?
A: I have a career-long interest in identity authentication and a personal passion for protecting individual privacy. It is a painful irony that is seems our physical identity is more protected than our digital identities.
I come from the content creation and online transactions world. I have the benefit of learning from naive and failed attempts at walled gardens — proprietary plays and the like. So collaboration is more than a mantra: it’s the only way this work gets done on a corporate, community and personal level.
- Q: As ED, what will be your top three priorities?
A: My short-term priorities are to build a foundation for growth. It’s not sexy but “plumbing” is important. So my immediate focus will be on making sure the Foundations’ finances and governance issues are solid. The third priority is to begin planning for a major OIDF event later in the year.
- Q: What are you most looking forward to with regards to OpenID in 2009?
A: I am blown away by with the level of engagement from all stakeholders. The make-up of the new board reflects how articulate, diverse and committed the community is. A physics professor of mine pointed out the high correlation between passion and success. The OIDF seems to have both in abundance.
If you’d like to reach out to Don and welcome him, you can contact him via email at don@oidf.org or leave a comment right here.
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on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 1:58 am and is filed under Foundation, News.
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Posted at 11:30 pm on February 5, 2009 by David Recordon
Today we’re excited to join Facebook’s Mike Schroepfer in announcing that they have joined the OpenID Foundation’s board as a sustaining corporate member.
Luke Shepard, a key member of Facebook’s Platform and Connect teams and a huge internal advocate for OpenID, has been selected as their representative and joins the current board of seven community elected board members and six sustaining corporate members: Google, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal (joined last week), VeriSign and Yahoo!. Additionally, to maintain the ratio of community and corporate board members, Joseph Smarr will be joining the board as our eighth community member.
As the OpenID community entered 2009 two key topics have become the focal points on the road to mainstream adoption: user experience and security.
Given the popularity and positive user experience of Facebook Connect, we look forward to Facebook working within the community to improve OpenID’s usability and reach. As a first step, Facebook will be hosting a design summit next week at their campus in Palo Alto which follows a similar summit on user experience hosted at Yahoo! last year. The summit will convene some of the top designers from Facebook, the DiSo Project, Google, JanRain, MySpace, Six Apart and Yahoo!, focusing on how existing OpenID implementations could support an experience similar to Facebook Connect.
Facebook’s financial contribution along with its membership on the board signals the company’s enthusiasm to work more closely with the OpenID community, building up momentum towards their adoption of OpenID as a standard. Facebook furthering its commitment to openness couldn’t have come at a better time to make 2009 an amazing year for OpenID and the wider social web.
For press contacts, please call OpenID Foundation board members David Recordon at 503.341.3009 or Chris Messina at 412.225.1051.
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Posted at 4:00 pm on January 28, 2009 by Brian Kissel
Building on the momentum from last year, the OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of PayPal as a sustaining corporate member of the Board. PayPal selected Andrew Nash, Sr. Director of Information Risk Management and a longstanding advocate for OpenID, as their representative and joins the current board of seven community elected board members and five sustaining corporate members: Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo!. According to Andrew, PayPal decided to become a sustaining member of the Foundation for a few key reasons:
- Open standards-based user-centric identity is clearly becoming an increasingly important part of the evolving web infrastructure
- PayPal has significant experience and expertise with security, trust, reputation and retail transactions that can be directly relevant as OpenID expands into new market and application areas
Executive committee announced
Following the community board member elections in December, the Board elected its Executive Committee (EC) at the first OpenID Foundation Board meeting of 2009 (minutes). The EC which works with the executive director on day to day operations and governance of the Foundation.
The following members were selected to the EC for 2009:
- Chair – Brian Kissel (JanRain)
- Vice-Chair – Scott Kveton (Vidoop) who was previously Chair
- Secretary – Mike Jones (Microsoft)
- Treasurer – Raj Mata (Yahoo!)
- Committee Liaison – David Recordon (Six Apart) who was previously Vice-Chair
The election of the EC was by unanimous consent on a full slate of officers, as discussed and determined by all the board members. The full Board meets every six weeks and the EC meets every two. In addition, in affirmation of the global nature of OpenID, the Board recently voted to add an International Liaison to the EC and will select that member shortly.
Board members featured on ReadWriteTalk
Last week, four Board members joined Sean Ammirati and others from popular technology blog ReadWriteWeb for an hour long podcast about increasing overall OpenID adoption, future plans for the OpenID Foundation and our thoughts on Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. The interview has been published on ReadWriteTalk.
Once again, we look forward to continuing our progress in 2009 and continue to welcome the input and contributions of the entire community.
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