On 2010-04-30, at 7:49 PM, Mike Jones wrote: > > The committee discussed the applicability of each of the three possible kinds > of revenue that GI identified to the OIDF. > Conference Fees: We agreed that while we could investigate charging > reasonable amounts for some OIDF events – perhaps for non-members to attend – > that this both would not generate nearly enough revenue to be material to the > operation of the foundation, and that doing this could work counter to our > mission of building a widely deployed Internet identity solution. > Licensing and Certification: First, the OIDF formed the Open Identity > Exchange (OIX) to do certification for OpenID, and so any certification > revenues would accrue to OIX, rather than OIDF at this point. Second, the > ramp-up on certification is likely to take years, and so even if we were > receiving the certification revenues, they would likely not be significant > for at least two years.
The Foundation could do Trademark licensing. We are spending a fair amount of money on protecting the brand. > > Memberships: Knowing that the other two classes of revenue were either > irrelevant or insignificant is clarifying, because it makes clear that the > foundation must have a structure that allows membership revenues to almost > wholly fund the organization. Thus, the committee agrees that we should > focus any restructuring efforts on a membership structure that both provides > a stable funding basis for operating the foundation and for maximizing > participation.
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