Hi everyone,<br><br>I thought this reply email from John Williams, head of the AutoID Labs at MIT would be a good one to share with all of you.<br><br>As it happens OIDF received membership applications in the last few hours/days from NRI, Ltd. in Tokyo (>1,000 employees via Nat Sakimura), from AARP (American Assoc. of Retired People, the largest known lobby group/community in Washington, D.C.), from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a number of other individuals and small organizations.<br>
<br>I believe this suggests strongly that we can develop a very broad community of OIDF members from perhaps far more diverse realms than we might have assumed.<br><br>cheers,<br>-bill<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John R. Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:jrw@mit.edu">jrw@mit.edu</a>><br>Date: Feb 12, 2008 11:53 AM<br>Subject: Membership<br>To: <a href="mailto:bill@oidf.org">bill@oidf.org</a><br>
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<p>Dear Bill, the AutoID Labs (<a href="http://autoid.mit.edu" target="_blank">http://autoid.mit.edu</a>
) work on the "Internet of Things" and cross enterprise
supply chains. As you can imagine there are serious security, authentication and
authorization issues. We believe that OpenID can play a role in providing a
mechanism for enterprises to participate in extended supply chains. We have our
own Open Source initiative (not fully deployed) at <a href="http://pervasiveID.org" target="_blank">http://pervasiveID.org</a> which will be focused on
identity of physical items in the RFID space. </p>
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<p>We have two things which might interest you, namely: 1) Use
Cases for Supply Chains including the US Pharma supply chain, 2) a simulator
that can model supply chains with as many as 1 million Facilities (Warehouses,
Distributors, Retailers etc) and around 1 billion messages per day. We
are using this simulator to understand security and its impact on the resources
needed to support supply chains. </p>
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We are a pure research group and I work presently with Microsoft and SAP. We
would be interested in contributing to your exciting effort.</p>
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<p>Best wishes,</p>
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<p>-john-</p>
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<p>John R. Williams</p>
<p>Director MIT Auto-ID Lab</p>
<p>Professor of Information Engineering</p>
<p>Cell 857-998-0033</p>
<p>Office 617-253-7201</p>
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