First Consortium Board Meeting
Last Tuesday, December 11, the MIT Kerberos Consortium had its first board meeting. Paul Armstrong gave detailed notes of the meeting. In a few cases, particularly dealing with parties not present at the meeting, Paul dropped some qualifiers and claimed that things were definitely true when I only stated that I suspected they were true. Such is life with raw notes.
The board did succeed in its goal of providing us priorities for our work. I think the board will work well together and will work well with the rest of the consortium staff.
I was expecting our priorities to focus mostly on technical projects. However the board surprised me; much of the work is on documentation, process and on promoting Kerberos. I actually think this is going to be good for the community and the technology but it was not quite what I expected going into the meeting. The board definitely seems to understand the value of standardization activity and working together with multiple vendors.
Some projects we’ll start now; some projects we will explore and report back to the board on in March.