This is more of an annoyance than an issue – as it does not appear to cause any problems, however I am having problems with setting the owner of an audience in SharePoint 2010.  I am able to choose the owner via people picker and resolve the name fine, however once clicking save it doesn’t seem to ‘stick.’  When you view the audience properties the owner appears as a claims token, and when you go back to modify the owner it isn’t resolved (as indicated by the red line under the name.)

Note that I’ve replicated this across multiple farms – all running SharePoint 2010 SP1 w/ June 2011 CU (14.0.6105.5000) and it is persistent - I’m unsure if this is an issue with our build process, the patch level or otherwise.  Note that none of the webapps on these farms are using claims – however claims is use by SharePoint by default, internally.

As you can see below once the owner has been modified it appears as a claims token.

And additionally once I’ve set the owner – going back to change or view the owner results in the following …