DRAFT 2016-10-12 Meeting Notes

Date

2016-10-12

The list of attendees will be extracted from the google doc here: https://tinyurl.com/zezkd9v

Andrew Hughes	andrewhughes3000 at gmail.com
Bill Pezoulas	Bill.pezoulas at qtech.ca
Brian Ward	brian at the-ward-family.com
Chris Adriaensen	chris.adriaensen at forgerock.com
Chris Phillips	chris.phillips@canarie.ca
Colin Wallis	colin at kantarainitiative.org
David Walker	david at walkerstreet.info
David Treece	dtreece at costco.com
Giles Watkins	giles@pridium.com
Steve “Hutch” Hutchinson	hutch@ge.com
Ian Glazer	iglazer at salesforce.com
Jin Wen	jin.wen at mckesson.com
Kenneth Dagg	kendaggtbs at gmail.com
Mehmet Yaliman	mehmetyaliman at gmail.com
Nat Sakimura	nat at sakimura.org
Nov Matake	nov at matake.jp
Paul Mundt	paul.mundt@adaptant.io
Nicholas Roy	roy.nicholas at gmail.com
Sarah Squire	sarah at engageidentity.com
Shannon Taylor	staylor at virtualmgmt.com
	ggallard at identicum.com
Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young	kaliya@identitywoman.net
Scott Shorter	scott.shorter at kuma.pro

- How did we get here?
- What has been happening since the Pledge?
- What is this Discussion Group?
- The Road Ahead
- Q&A

Session starts at 12:03 Eastern Daylight Time
Building an association has been a long time coming and being discussed in smaller circles
At EIC 2016 Ian and Kantara announced the Pledge and started collecting sign-ups
Broad representation from many countries - very encouraging that this is the right time
Kantara Initiative stepped up to host the incubation and formation process
The Kantara Special Committee was started to coordinate and start things off
Colin Wallis gives an overview of Kantara's background efforts to date
The Survey
- Very high response rate
- Walked through demographic questions of the survey
The Discussion Group
- Andrew outlined how a Kantara Discussion Group functions
- Description of the elected leadership roles, nomination process and election process
- Call for nominations begins October 12 - watch the listserv email for instructions
Project Leaders will be required to lead work areas, assigned by the DG Leadership team
- Please volunteer!
The road ahead
- Goal: Public launch of the Professional Organization in February at RSA
- The schedule is aggressive, but achievable
- Discussion about the Survey results to see what inputs we have from this community to start us off

Q: How many Vice-Chairs?
- A: One to start
Q: What are the role expectations for VC and Chair
- A: Meeting support to the Chair; encouraging discussions; gathering threads; helping to oversee the Project Leaders and sub-groups
- A: Expect to be very active in shaping and engaging the groups
Q: Can we see the survey results?
- A: Next call we will start the detailed response discussion - the intent is to work sequentially and methodically through the material
Q: What kind of organization will this become? Self-funded? Commercial?
- A: To be worked out - strong input from the DG - the Board Special Committee will gather advice and input
- A: The business model that is chosen will impact the kinds of structures that are possible