June 4, 2020 Executive Committee Call Minutes

Present:
Don Thibeau, Executive Director
Mike Jones
Nat Sakimura
Bjorn Hjelm
George Fletcher
John Bradley

Visitors:
Mike Leszcz, OpenID Foundation
Tom Smedinghoff, Locke Lord LLP


1.       Letter to OBIE about FAPI certifications
We received a response to our letter to OBIE from the trustee Imran 
Gulamhuseinwala.  It did say that he's encouraging the CMA9 to all certify.  
Producing a "dashboard" of CMA9 certification progress has been requested by 
OBIE; this would only be possible with permission from the CMA9 banks.  It's 
noted that banks have long payment cycles.  We could ask for payment before 
substantial support is provided.  We can talk about possibilities on the next 
certification call.


2.       Certification Program Update
We have started the migration to the Java conformance suite for OpenID Connect. 
 See https://openid.net/certification/migration/.  We provide economic 
incentives for people to run both conformance suites for new certifications 
while we're still testing the tests.  We haven't received any new Connect 
certifications yet.  We are working on making certification results fully 
self-contained.  There are still tests missing from the Java suite for a few 
profiles.


3.       Budget Discussion
We are looking at ways to conserve cash during the economic downturn.  For one, 
we are looking at ways to be prudent in our certification costs.  Mike Leszcz 
and Don developed a plan with the certification team.  Roland Hedberg's Python 
support contract concludes at the end of this month.  Filip agreed for us to 
not renew his minimal contract.  We will retain Hans Zandbelt, Joseph Heenan, 
and Serkan Özkan with adjusted contracts.  We are roughly halving our monthly 
run rate for certification costs.

We have used actual figures for 2020 thus far to produce updated budget 
projections for the rest of the year.  We are saving substantial amounts money 
by not having travel.


4.       Other Business
The European Commission has requested us to present at a closed financial 
sector workshop on June 18, with open banking being a topic.


5.       Next Meeting
There will be a board call on Thursday, June 11th at 3pm Pacific Time.

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