*** REMINDER - IMPORTANT – DATA PORTABILITY ELECTIONS ***

[Steve Repetti]

*** IMPORTANT – DATA PORTABILITY ELECTIONS ***

Pursuant to the Data Portability Charter, it is time to elect the
Data
Portability steering committee for the upcoming 2010 term.


The general process is as follows:


Interested parties must nominate themselves or be nominated (and
accept)
- Nominees should post a message to the DPP public message board
stating their intention, a brief background, and interest/experience
in Data Portability
- Must be an eligible plenary member
- Nominations must be received no later than midnight (GMT) November
23.


To be eligible to vote, participants must be a member of the plenary
- A person becomes an active member of the PLENARY by posting a
message to the dataportability-voting mailing list declaring their
intention to be a member
- Active membership in the PLENARY expires annually for all members
at midnight, GMT on the last day of the OPERATING YEAR.
- Current members may declare their intention to remain in good
standing for the following year up to 30 days before this date.
- People who have joined the PLENARY no less than one week before
the
election opens are considered eligible to vote.


Voting shall begin on December 1st (GMT) and end midnight (GMT)
December 8th
- Each member of the PLENARY shall have one vote to cast for each
open seat.
- They may cast all votes for one candidate, or one vote each for
multiple candidate.
- A member may also choose to cast only some of their votes and
abstain the remainder.


Winners to be announced upon certification of the election results
within 48 hours from election close.


Newly elected committee members will begin their 1 year term on
January 1, 2010.


Submitted by:
Steve Repetti
DataPortability Secretary

[Drummond Reed]

In keeping with the nominations process, I would be happy to run for re-election. As I believe most members of this forum know, in my current position as Executive Director of the Information Card Foundation (ICF) and co-chair of the OASIS XRI and XDI Technical Committees, I have to do a great deal of travel and therefore have not able to attend a number of the DP Steering Group calls. However as the XDI 1.0 protocol emerges in 2010 (when we expect the specs to be completed), I believe it will become a powerful tool for implementation of data portability, so I would be happy to continue to support the Data Portability effort as best I can given my schedule.

In addition, I believe the joint work of the ICF and the OpenID Foundation on the Open Identity Framework (also called the Open Trust Framework), as explained in this white paper, is another key supporting element in data portability infrastructure. I am heavily involved in this work and expect to be throughout the next year.

Following is a brief bio.

Best,

=Drummond

Drummond Reed (http://xri.net/=drummond.reed) is Executive Director of the Information Card Foundation (http://informationcard.net). He is also co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier - http://www.oasis-open.org/xri) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange - http://www.oasis-open.org/xdi) Technical Committees. He was a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation (http://www.openid.net) and currently serves as secretary of XDI.ORG (http://www.xdi.org) and a Steward of Identity Commons (http://www.idcommons.net). A recipient of the 2002 Digital Identity Pioneer Award from DigitalIDWorld, Drummond blogs on identifiers, identity, and data sharing at www.equalsdrummond.name.

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