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2006/06/01 XDI.Org Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

  1. Attending
    1. Board
    2. Guests
  2. Call to Order
  3. I-Broker Insurance
  4. Verification Of Other GSS Legal Documents
  5. Isso Authentication Protocol Decision
  6. 50-Year Names
  7. @Name Pricing Task Force Report
  8. Schedule and Next Meeting
  9. Adjournment

1. Attending

1.1. Board

1.2. Guests

2. Call to Order

The telephonic meeting was called to order at 5:10PM PT.

3. I-Broker Insurance

Mr. Wiese announced that the first two i-brokers, ooTao and Encirca, have been approved.

Mr. Blackmer and Mr. Wiese worked to harmonize a discrepancy in the language between the I-Broker Application and the I-Broker Agreement. Mr. Blackmer sent the proposed revisions to both documents via a separate email, and recommends that this change be made. The trustees agreed and directed Mr. Reed as XDI.org Secretary as follows.

ACTION: Mr. Reed to make update the relevant documents at gss.xdi.org.

4. Verification Of Other GSS Legal Documents

Mr. Blackmer said that as this point, there are no other open issues with the legal documents.

Mr. Davis asked about the qualifications, application process, and operational process for Contact Agents and Contact Data Custodians. Mr. Reed explained that section 2.2 of the GSS defines the qualifications and application process; appendicies G and H have the applications.

5. Isso Authentication Protocol Decision

Per the previous email thread on this topic, the question before the trustees is whether for ISSO authentication, XDI.org should:

Mr. Reed explained the history of these two options. Mr. Strongin asked whether this was feasible at launch. Mr. Reed explained the suggestion that i-brokers be given a period of time to come into conformance. Mr. Dale supported this suggestion.

Mr. Davis pointed out that there are client libraries available for OpenID, but they do not yet are not yet for SAML ISSO, which raises the question of how long it will take them to be available.

The consensus was unanimous on option (d). Therefore the discussion focused on the implementation period. There was a long discussion about this without reaching consensus was reached. The suggestion was made that those working on ISSO discuss this further between themselves and with the i-brokers and make a recommendation back to the XDI.org trustees.

ACTION: Mr. Reed to contact those specifying and implementing ISSO to obtain feedback and help formulate a recommendation back to the trustees no later than next Tuesday.

6. 50-Year Names

Mr. Washburn asked to entertain any new proposals in the hope of reaching consensus on a solution.

Mr. Caluori asked for feedback about his existing 5-year name proposal.

Mr. Davis replied that: a) the names would not available to all brokers, b) there was no discount once the Identity Commons margin was included, and c) the term was time-limited.

Mr. Davis described the new proposal he sent to the those attending the call.

Mr. Caluori did not agree with the terms of that proposal.

Mr. Washburn asked if there was a way to make progress.

Mr. Caluori suggested that both he and Mr. Davis publish a set of principles that they feel can be the basis for working out a solution and send them to Mr. Washburn. Mr. Davis agreed.

Mr. Topliff asked what NeuStar's principles might be. Mr. Sequeira responded that the key principle is, "What is right for the market?"

Mr. Strongin spoke in favor of defining a mechanism that would reflect the market and could dynamically adjust for those principles.

ACTION: MR. CALUORI AND MR. DAVIS to both send Mr. Washburn a proposed set of principles upon which they believe a solution should be based.

7. @Name Pricing Task Force Report

Mr. Washburn asked for a progress report by the @name task force.

Mr. Reed reported that Mr. Wiese has a copy of the list of English generic words originally used by XNS.org.

ACTION: Mr. Wiese to send that list to all task force members.

There was a long discussion about withholding of two and three letter strings but not consensus was reached.

Mr. Washburn polled those on the call for the points on which there was consensus. It included the following two points:

There was also consensus the the following are open issues:

Mr. Chasen brought up the potential issue of withholding a very large quantity of @name, e.g., 20,000. It was concluded there was no technical issue; this is purely a policy issue.

Mr. Topliff shared the opinion that as an i-broker, such a policy simply reduces early revenue, and he recommends against it. Mr. Strongin acknowledget that but pointed out that it may increase revenue in the longer term under an auction scenario.

ACTION: The task force (assigned in the last meeting) will hold at least two telecons before next Tuesday and then report back at the next meeting with its recommendation.

8. Schedule and Next Meeting

Mr. Washburn confirmed that the next meeting via telecon would be next Tuesday, June 6, at 4PM Pacific/7 ET, which is Wednesday 8AM Toyko.

He also confirmed that the intent of this meeting is to move for final approval of the GSS V1.0 next Tuesday June 6, so all participants are strongly urged to close all open issues and action items in preparation for that meeting.

9. Adjournment

Mr. Washburn adjourned the meeting by consensus at 7:05PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Drummond Reed XDI.org Secretary