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Archive for January, 2010 Ping Identity Joins Openid Foundation Board Archive for January, 2010 Ping Identity Joins OpenID Foundation Board Posted at 11:48 am on January 19, 2010 by jfe Ping Identity®, the leader in Internet Identity Security, today announced it has joined the OpenID Foundation to help develop, promote and extend digital identity and choice on the Web. Pam Dingle, a senior technical architect in Ping Identity’s Office of the CTO, will represent the company on the OpenID Foundation’s board of directors. “The marketplace is increasingly looking for open, multi protocol identity solution sets that Ping and other members of the Foundation have innovated,” said Don Thibeau, Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation. “Ping Identity’s decision to help shape the strategy of the OpenID Foundation signals a phase shift in the evolution of the open identity infrastructure.” Ping Identity is committed to extending the functionality of Internet Single Sign-On across a growing number of critical corporate and consumer communication channels. As a sustaining member of the OpenID Foundation’s board of directors, Ping Identity joins a distinct group of digital identity thought leaders to accelerate open options for securely managing digital identities. “Protecting digital identities including securing user access is quickly becoming a business and personal imperative,” said Ping Identity CTO Patrick Harding. “As an OpenID Foundation member, Ping Identity brings almost a decade of Internet SSO experience together with a broad range of security disciplines to help overcome the security and interoperability barriers to long term success.” The OpenID Foundation represents the open community of developers, vendors, and users. The organization assists the community by providing needed infrastructure and help in promoting and supporting expanded adoption of OpenID. This entails managing intellectual property and brand marks as well as fostering viral growth and global participation in the proliferation of OpenID. Ping Identity joins nine other OpenID Foundation corporate board members including Booz Allen Hamilton, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, VeriSign, Yahoo! and LexisNexis. From openid.net/2010/01/ 1 25 November 2010 This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 11:48 am and is filed under News, Press Releases. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Mobile Services in Japan begin OpenID experiment Posted at 11:11 am on January 4, 2010 by jfe 22 companies including NTT docomo, KDDI, Sony, NEC, etc. have formed “ID Platform Federation Forum”. With JPY12 billion (approx. US$1.3M) in funding from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the forum members will initiate the experiment, based largely on OpenID, by the end of the year. The forum itself is operated by Nomura Research Institute (NRI). Mobile content and commerce has flourished in Japan after the deployment of mobile browser communication for the mobile phones in Japan. As of 2008, it amounts to JPY1,352,400,000,000 (approx. US$15M) and showing 17% growth even under stagnant market conditions [1]. It has become so important that it is often said that a service will not be viable without mobile web support. One of the key factors of its success has been attributed to the ability to identify the user reliably in the mobile carrier network. This characteristic combined with the micropayments provided by the mobile carriers enable a zero-hassle login and payment user experience. However, these features have only been available via mobile browser and not on the PC and other internet- connected devices. The forum aims to expand the success of the identification and payment service capability from the mobile arena into the wider internet, using OpenID as the underlying technology. The forum will provide insights on the implementation and recommendations obtained from the experiment back to the international community through bodies such as the OpenID Foundation. Currently, the forum expects the feedback to impact the Mobile Profile of OpenID, the Attribute schema, and Level of Protection of the Relying Parties. Chairman Prof. Aida, Tokyo University Vice-chair Prof. Morikawa, Tokyo University Secretariat Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. Members Access Co. Ltd. KDDI Corporation Nextwave Co. Ltd. From openid.net/2010/01/ 2 25 November 2010 NEC Corporation Nihon Unisys Ltd. Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. NTT Comunications NTT docomo Inc. Fujitsu Hitachi Ltd. Softbank BB Corp. Sony Corporation Willcom Inc. in addition, there are observers. [1] Source: Ministry of Internal Affaires and Communication (http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_news/s-news/02ryutsu04_000016.html) This entry was posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010 at 11:11 am and is filed under Foundation, News, government. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Payment Working Group started at OpenID Foundation Japan (OIDF-J) Posted at 11:08 am on by jfe In response to the newly enacted “Fund Transfer and Payment Services Act of Japan”, the OpenID Foundation Japan has announced the formation of the “Payment Working Group (WG)” on December 8, 2009. The Payment WG consists of 14 member companies and aims to create whitepapers on ”Guidelines for Secure Management of Information”, “Guidelines for Outsourcing” and “Guidelines for Identity Verification and Authentication” as well as the best practice and profiling document for implementing fund transfer and payment service built on OpenID. Currently, only depository financial institutions such as banks are allowed to provide fund transfer service. The situation is going to change by this act taking effect in 2010. After that time, anybody who complies with certain conditions can start providing funds transfer service. The aim of this WG is to promote OpenID as the foundation for such services by establishing industry backed recommendations on profiles of OpenID. Members of Payment WG are: Chairman Professor Nobuhiko Sugiura, Chuo Graduate School of Strategic Management From openid.net/2010/01/ 3 25 November 2010 Secretariat Nomura Research Institute, Ltd Members SBI holdings, Inc NEC BIGLOBE, Ltd NTT DoCoMo IncNTT DATA Corporation KDDI Corporation GMO Payment Gateway, Inc Seven Bank, Ltd SOFTBANK PAYMENT SERVICE Corporation NEC Corporation Nomura Research Institute Ltdmixi, Inc Yahoo Japan Corporation Rakuten, Inc Observer Prepaid Cards/Vouchers Issue Association To join this WG, one should contact OpenID Foundation Japan at TEL：(+81) 3-6274-1451 E-mail：[email protected] http://www.openid.or.jp This entry was posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010 at 11:08 am and is filed under Foundation, News, government. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. From openid.net/2010/01/ 4 25 November 2010 .
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