2007-10-11 XDI.Org Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes
- Attending
- Call to Order
- Approval of Minutes
- Identity Commons Agreement Finalization
- Treasurer's Report
- Insurance
- Update on XRI and XDI Development
- OpenXRI Open Source
- Next Meeting
- Adjournment
1. Attending
1.1. Board
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Bill Washburn
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Geoffrey Strongin
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Nat Sakimura
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Owen Davis
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Jaco Aizenman
1.2. Guests
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Drummond Reed, Secretary
2. Call to Order
Mr. Washburn called the meeting to order at 4:15 PM PT.3. Approval of Minutes
Minutes of the past three meetings were approved by an email ballot of the trustees completed on 2007-09-11. No other minutes are pending.
4. Identity Commons Agreement Finalization
Mr. Washburn and Mr. Davis reported that the final agreement was signed on September 13, 2007.
# ACTION ITEM: MR. DAVIS to post a copy of the agreement and the Identity Commons disclosure document (see MeetingMinutes20070115, item #3)to the XDI.org wiki. The actual document should be a PDF file uploaded and link to the wiki.
5. Treasurer's Report
MR. Davis reported with the montly income from the XDI.org administrative fee and @name surcharge on GRS registrations, the checking account has a current balance of just under $38,000.
No disbursement of the @name surcharge has yet taken place.
# MR. DAVIS to send a written treasurer's report to the trustees, including a list of current liabilities.
# MR. WASHBURN, after receipt of the above report, to initiate an email vote for approval of the first disbursment of @name surcharge fees to Identity Commons.
6. Insurance
Mr. Davis reported that the initial research has been done by Justine Hirsch, however the research has not been completed.
Two forms of insurance are being researched: a liability policy as required by the contract with Cordance, and a D&O policy.
# MR. REED to contact Lon Wiese at Cordance concerning the former, with a cc to Ms. Hirsch.
# MR. DAVIS to subsequently follow up with Ms. Hirsch to complete the research and recommend a policy for purchase.
7. Update on XRI and XDI Development
Mr. Reed provided the following update:
7.1. XRI
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XRI Resolution 2.0 Committee Draft 02 is nearly ready; the vote should take place by the end of October.
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There are now three active XRI open source projects:
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OpenXRI in Java – the oldest project, now being led by both Wil Tan at NeuStar and Markus Sabadello at Parity.
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Barx, a new XRI proxy resolver in Ruby from Victor Grey and Kermit Snelson.
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A C++ resolver originally developed by
ooTao and now also being contributed to by Cogneto.
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XRI is being integrated into the
Higgins Project.
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A roadmap for XRI 3.0 is ready as soon as XRI Resolution 2.0 is complete.
7.2. XDI
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Interest in the new
XDI RDF model is running very strong.
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Markus Sabadello at
Parity, the company that started the Higgins Project, has implemented an XDI RDF library for Java called XDI4J. They are planning to contribute this to Higgins.
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The Barx team plans to implement the XDI RDF model once Barx is complete.
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Ootao and Cogneto would like to develop interoperability between the ooTao XDI engine that implements the XDI ATI (Authority/Type/Instance) model and the new XDI RDF model.
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The XDI 1.0 specs should be developed concurrently with the XRI 3.0 specs this fall.
7.3. ITU Focus Group on Identity Management
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This group completed its work in Geneva in September.
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Their report was favorable about XRI being the preferred solution for global identifier interoperability and resource discovery.
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They would like to see XRI governance, i.e., XDI.org functions, move to ITU.
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Mr. Strongin pointed out that this has long been anticipated as an option as XRI infrastructure started to gain traction in the market. There was concensus among the trustees that they would be very open to this evolutionary step provided that it was consistent with the charter of XDI.org.
8. OpenXRI Open Source
The final topic concerned the interest of the current OpenXRI Project to move from its current legal umbrella at OpenXRI Foundation to XDI.org. It would lessen the overhead involved of maintaining an additional non-profit corporation, and also assist OpenXRI in preparing the necessary contribution forms so that the OpenXRI code can be approved by Eclipse legal team for use within Eclipse.
The trustees all agreed this made sense, and was part of the core mission of XDI.org. There was a short discussion of the logistics of how to proceed.
# MR. REED to confirm the logistics with Joel Getzdanner, the original incorporator, and Mary Ruddy, VP Service at Parity who is working with Eclipse legal on clearance for the OpenXRI code base.
# MR. REED AND MR. DAVIS to proceed with the necessary actions to transfer the OpenXRI assets to XDI.org.
9. Next Meeting
The next meeting will be scheduled as needed; until then actions will be taken via email.
10. Adjournment
Mr. Washburn adjourned the meeting by consensus at 5 PM PT.Respectfully Submitted,
Drummond Reed, XDI.org Secretary