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Large Business Community Meeting Minutes April 2025

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The Large Business Community held it's first meeting on 4/22/2025. Please find the recording and AI generated notes attached. We look forward to the next meeting in May (to be scheduled)!

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OpenSSL Large Business Community 

Host: Jeff Johnson

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

3:55 PM  |  (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)  |  1 hr 8 mins

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Recording

Topic

Password

OpenSSL Large Business Community -20250422 2105-1

3aFR6P23

Chapters AI-generated

Meeting summary AI-generated

The meeting discussed the role of the business advisory committee in representing diverse communities and driving initiatives beneficial to the OpenSSL community.

  • The meeting is a business advisory committee for the Open SSL community.

  • The purpose of the committee is to represent the interests and perspectives of diverse communities, including large businesses.

  • The committee's role is to provide feedback, drive initiatives, and ensure alignment with community needs.

  • Proposed initiatives include projects, policies, and changes beneficial to the community.

  • Conference in Prague on October 7-9, call for papers open, encourages attendance.

  • Stay updated on changes affecting large businesses, new regulations like FedRAMP and crypto module requirements.

  • Advisory role to align community needs with OpenSSL's direction, contribute to governance and growth.

  • The group discussed the need for two monthly meetings, one for internal discussions and one for the larger community.

  • The importance of creating a roadmap for OpenSSL was emphasized, with input from the communities to determine its content.

  • Concerns were raised about FIPS validation and support for non-LTS versions, with a need for clear documentation and communication.

  • The goal is to have FIPS models validated on LTS branches, but there are challenges in managing multiple branches.

  • Anton presented slides with top-level abstract data on OpenSSL's current status and community involvement.

  • The need for a DTLS 1.3 implementation in OpenSSL has been highlighted due to customer inquiries.

  • Performance improvements in OpenSSL 3.5 are being monitored, with Amazon expressing interest in the results.

Action items AI-generated

  • Consider making future meetings open to the public (Anton Arapov)

  • Create a roadmap for OpenSSL with input from the communities (Jeff Johnson)

  • Discuss the cadence of meetings and alternate the meeting times to accommodate different time zones (Jeff Johnson)

  • Compile a list of large business priorities and concerns (Jeff Johnson)

  • Document and publish the information about FIPS validation of the non LTS versions (Anton Arapov)

  • Anton Arapov to provide an update to the website and properly document the support for FIPS provider until 2030.

  • Anton Arapov to share the recording of the ICMC conference presentation.

  • Jeff Johnson/Anton Arapov to write a post and attach the presentations from the ICMC conference.

  • Ryan Hooper to work on the DTLS 1.3 implementation in OpenSSL.