May Foundation BAC meeting minutes

Last week the Foundation Business Advisory Committee (BAC) met. Minutes can be found on the communities site. Key takeaways:

• The Foundation has been pursuing funding for some of the top potential features for 3.6 and beyond as voted on by the BAC:
  • BIGNUM refactoring for constant-time
  • Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)
  • DTLS 1.3
  • Backlog of Github issues and PRs
• Since 3.0, a number of OpenSSL forks have diverged for a variety of reasons. The BAC considered the various reasons for the forks how the OpenSSL project might support those use cases.
• The BAC considered creating a disaster recovery plan. For instance, what would happen if GitHub were no longer an appropriate platform for the project.
• The directors will consider a proposal for regular “open hours” sessions.
• Going forward, the Foundation BAC will meet in the last week of each month and alternate timezones.