April 25, 2022 OpenID Board Meeting Notes

Attending In Person:
Nat Sakimura
George Fletcher
Vittorio Bertocci
Don Thibeau
Mike Jones
Mike Leszcz
Nancy Cam-Winget
John Bradley
Gail Hodges
Kosuke Koiwai

Attending Remotely:
Asish Jain
Bjorn Hjelm
Wes Dunnington
Takehisa Shibata
Takao Kojima
Luis Da Silva

Absent:
Filip Verley

Guests Attending In Person:
Debbie Bucci - Equideum Health
Lori Jordan - Visa
Torsten Lodderstedt - yes.com


1.       Health Landscape and OpenID Opportunities
Debbie Bucci addressed the board on this topic.  IHE coordinates the use of 
existing standards to address specific clinical needs.  HL7 is another relevant 
ANSI-accredited standards body that focuses on the sharing and management of 
Health data.  Both organizations have liaison or special agreements that permit 
them to share their profiles/standards with ISO TC 215 for consideration.   She 
suspects there may be some work to extend 27001/27002 for domain specific 
activities not necessarily covered under TC215 but she has yet to locate 
anything specific as of our meeting.   She said that there's a lot of 
opportunities to contribute to the health standards space.  OIDF may consider 
liaison agreements with either IHE or HL7 to directly impact work that is in 
progress at the pilot stage - still evolving.

She said that having so much optionality will not get you to true 
interoperability.  There are a number of ongoing efforts that require 
interoperability in exchanging health data both at the network of networks 
layer and enabling patient/consumers to manage their data directly.
Gail asked if the board had feedback for Debbie in her investigations.  
Vittorio said that he felt like any investigation into GNAP would be a 
distraction.  Gail is hoping for the healthcare community to not create their 
own protocol standards.  We talked about consent and authorization.  Vittorio 
suggested looking at the Kantara consent receipt work.  Nat said that some of 
that has been brought to ISO.
Debbie asked about the status of FAPI 2.  Nat said that the security analysis 
work is starting.  Torsten said that there's a spec for explicit content 
management/grant management.


2.       Discussion on GAIN
Torsten talked with us about GAIN.  He said that a community group is different 
than a standards effort.  He said that they have a very diverse group of 
participants, which is a value in itself.  What's missing is something to 
manage networks of providers.  Torsten said that there's substantial 
participation in GAIN by people from the SSI community.  Torsten said that we 
can contribute to interoperability in that space.

Torsten told us about conversations in the EU about interoperability of 
identity systems.  He said that he's telling them that using multiple 
credential formats will hurt interoperability.  And that interoperability will 
be helped by using OpenID Connect between the wallet and other parties.

Gail and Torsten are hoping for some pilots to be up and running this year.  
The community group started in March.  It took several months to create the 
participation agreement.  The community group has two different alternating 
meeting times that work well for different jurisdictions.

Don said that he thinks that OIX was very conservative in estimating that 
projects will take 2-3 years.  He hopes that OIX and OIDF can find a middle 
ground together.

Torsten talked about interoperation between trust frameworks.  Torsten said 
that RPs are being slow to implement.

Torsten said that the test networks are using no data about actual people - in 
part, to avoid legal and privacy issues.

John surmised that those building components likely must have theories about 
how they will eventually monetize their participation.  Torsten said that 
providers seem more enthusiastic than RPs - possibly because they expect to be 
able to monetize providing the data.

Vittorio asked whether it would be possible to put a small slice into 
production - possibly with only one OP and one RP.  Torsten said that 
technically yes, but the RP might wonder why they want to enter production with 
only one OP.

Torsten is working on several non-regulated identity verification use cases.  
For instance, identity verification for Domain Name registration.  GAIN has 
participation from Microsoft, Meeco, InfoCert, which have incompatible wallet 
formats.


3.       Discussion: Global Initiatives - EU Digital Wallet Initiative & OECD 
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
Torsten talked about tensions among different groups developing wallet formats. 
 He talked about the EU wallet initiative and participation by member states.  
He said that there is an expert commission.  There's a tender to work on the EU 
Wallet standard.

There's a short timeline for providing feedback on an OECD document on privacy 
enhancements.  Mark Haine has been working on that.


4.       OIDF Strategy and Initiative Progress
There are a half dozen whitepapers being worked on.  The Open Banking / Open 
Data whitepaper is published and is having a very positive response.


5.       Marketing
Mike Leszcz let us know that the strategy taskforce solidified much of the 
strategy and messaging being worked on.  That will inform our messaging.

Carla Roncato is gathering data to prepare recommendations for a Website 
update.  Carla is considering how we can enhance our strategic social media 
presence.


6.       Kim Cameron Identity Award Pilot
We agreed to provide travel funding to three recipients to EIC.  Our accountant 
suggested several tweaks, which we have implemented.  He suggested adding a 
"per diem" update to our expense policy.  There was an update to the airfare 
policy.  Submissions are due at the end of today.  We will review submissions 
on Wednesday morning prior to IIW.

Mike, for the record, applauded Don's direction to honor Kim with something 
that makes a difference, rather than just standing on stage and talking about 
him.


7.       Resolution to Approve Updated Travel and Expense Policy
The resolution was unanimously approved.


8.       Budget Report
John gave us a budget report.  We are slightly over budgeted amounts on legal 
fees.  Our projected cash at end of year is above $700,000.  There are full 
financials to review in the membership dashboard.  Mike Leszcz talked about the 
mechanics of paying the OIDF Japan chapter their share of designated member 
dues, if requested by OIDF-J.  We are sponsoring Identiverse.  Microsoft 
allocated a longstanding directed funds balance to have the OpenID Foundation 
support the OAuth Security Workshop (OSW).


9.       Emerging Issues and Opportunities
We already discussed the identity award pilot.  George reported that the 
browser changes conversations are frustrating, as breaking changes appear to 
still be on the horizon that will break redirect-based identity protocols.  
Vittorio said that he's a big believer in the market correcting problems 
itself.  Vittorio advocated helping the industry move from SAML to OpenID 
Connect because while Connect can be ready for the changes, SAML deployments 
will likely break in unfixable ways.  George considers WebCM to be a new 
identity protocol being written by non-identity people.  John expressed that 
once these things are baked into the browsers, our ability to maneuver will 
largely be gone.  Nancy asked whether we can have a security review and that 
there should be a well-defined threat model.  Gail asked if it was time for us 
to take additional actions.  Vittorio thought that a letter won't be effective 
until something breaks.  Nancy thinks that education is very important; she's 
seeing privacy changes that break security.  Vittorio and Nancy talked about 
highlighting the interdependencies between browsers and identity.

Mike said that our open letter to Apple was successful because it contained 
actionable feedback that was clearly in Apple's best interest.  Apple did take 
the actions identified.  Mike said that any letter we write on the proposed 
browser changes should aspire to be similarly actionable.

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