Last Friday's ICF board meeting at Catalyst

[Paul Trevithick]

Last Friday in San Diego we had a lively meeting focusing mostly on our priorities for the rest of 2010. There was a general air of optimism that if we concentrate our energies, we'd soon have a very small number of very high visibility relying party websites that would showcase the unique abilities of Information Cards. 

After all, as John Bradley said in the meeting, we have the other two legs of the stool. We already have high profile card issuers (e.g. Equifax, PayPal, CitiGroup, Acxiom, and lots more) (some of which are even FICAM certified by OIX). And we already have zillions of selectors installed (e.g. in every copy of Windows 7)  and good cross-platform support, with downloadable selector apps available for Mac, iPhone/iPad and others.

Adding a new, easy-to-use layer of security to the Internet is a massive project and takes years. But bit by bit we're getting there. We just need to remain focused on a few relying Websites that require verified claims/attributes involving higher-than-zero value & risk transactions. That's our sweet spot. And it's a place without a lot of competition.

All the best,

--Paul

The minutes from the formal portion of the meeting are here:

https://wiki.informationcard.net/index.php/ICF_Board_Meeting_2010-07-30

Here's a static copy:

Attendance

PRESENT

• Andrew Nash (Paypal)
• Axel Nennker (Community) - telephone
• John Bradley (Community)
• Mary Ruddy (Community)
• David Turner (for Tony Nadalin, Microsoft)
• Mike McIntosh (Community)
• Mike Ozburn (Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Pamela Dingle (Community)
• Paul Trevithick (Community)
• Ron Carpinella (Equifax)
• Uppili Srinivasan (Oracle)

REGRETS WITH PROXY

• Patrick Harding (Community) proxy = Pam
• Kim Cameron (Community) proxy = Mike Jones

ABSENT

• Andy Hodgkinson (Community)
• Ben Laurie (Community & Google)
• Craig Burton (Community)
• Jorg Heuer (Deutsche Telekom)
• Peter Tippett/Paul Donfried/Marcus Lasance (Verizon)
• Sandy Porter (Community)

GUESTS

• Mike Jones (Microsoft)

Paul opened the meeting at 11:30PM PT.

Open Identity Exchange

Mike Jones made and Andrew seconded the following motion:

BE IT RESOLVED: The board wishes to thank Drummond for successfully carrying out the mission of launching the Open Identity Exchange and putting it on a sound footing.

The motion passed unanimously.

The board recognizes the continued value of the OIX as an ecosystem partner, and that we expect to continue to work with them and rely on them to produce the trust frameworks that will enable key engagements.

ICF Priorities

The board discussed the priorities for ICF.

John moved and Pam seconded the following motion:

BE IT RESOLVED: It is the sense of the board that we should focus our resources in the upcoming period on deploying relying parties that demonstrate the unique value proposition of Information Cards.

The motion passed unanimously.

Andrew moved and Ron seconded the following motion:

BE IT RESOLVED that ICF shall form a Working Group to establish the marketing and messaging platform for the next period.

The motion passed unanimously.

Andrew moved and Mike Ozburn seconded the following motion:

BE IT RESOLVED that ICF shall form a Working Group to establish the engagement model for relying parties that will be participating in this initiative.

The motion passed unanimously.

The board agreed to hold weekly coordination calls on this initiative for the next month or two during the regular ICF board meeting time slot from 9-10AM PT, noon-1PM ET, on Fridays.

Adjournment

Mike McIntosh moved and Mary seconded adjournment of the meeting.

The motion passed by acclaimation.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:15PM PT. 

[ne...@mcevoy.biz]

Hi

Is this a role that Cloud service providers would play? If so there might
be great opportunity to harness that momentum.

I noticed in the recent DMTF specs for managing/interoperable Clouds,
there appeared to be relevant sections for this, e.g.:

"The cloud service provider should..

..provide identity services that permit customers to provision and manage
identities that can be authenticated and authorized to access cloud
services using standardized mechanisms.

..provide services that establish trust relationships between itself and
customers or other services providers using standardized techniques"

Regards,

Neil.

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[Anthony Nadalin]

I really don't think that the cloud service should "provide services that establish trust relationships between it and customers or other services providers", this could lead to all sorts of bad behaviors and lack of openness.