[OpenID] Japan Report 2008-12-13

Sat Dec 13 05:01:36 UTC 2008

Very, very impressive!!!!!

Is anything similar happening in any other country or just Japan...?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> Here is the activity report from Japan for the first half of December.
> Hope it is helpful to the community as a whole. (I have posted more or less
> the same thing in my blog http://www.sakimura.org/en/ as well.)
>
> I. OpenID BizDay #1
>
> On Dec. 12, OpenID Foundation Japan had a members only seminar titled
> "OpenID BizDay#1", hosted by Yahoo! Japan.  BizDay is something OIDF-J is
> providing to the members as the benefit of being a paying member.
> It is intended to be a forum for the members to share their business
> (non-technical) experience.
>
> Dec. 12 was the first such occasion, and over 60 people across the
> industries attended it.
>
> The agenda was as follows:
>
> 0. Opening Welcome Message: Koji Yagi, President, OpenID Foundation Japan
> 1. Keynote: "Next Generation e-government services and security
> - loosely coupled databases and Government-Industry collaboration."
>      Prof. Osamu Sudo, The University of Tokyo
> 2. "Yahoo! JAPAN and OpenID", Tetsuya Nishimaiki, CTO, Yahoo! Japan.
> 3. "Developments in the U.S.", Tatsuki Sakushima, NRI-A
> 4. "Interoperability considerations on ID management: A Concordia Project",
> Hiroki Ito, NTT
> 5. Status report on the progress of OpenID Japan's activity. Nat Sakimura,
> NRI
> 6. OIDF-J Activity Reports, Noboru Uchiyama, OpenID Japan/NRI
> 7. Member announcements and forthcoming OpenID Japan activities.
>  - mixi OpenID Contest, Hiroyuki Oyama, mixi
>  - OpenID BizDay #2, Noboru Uchiyama, OpenID Japan/NRI
>
> To start the BizDay #1, Mr. Yagi gave a welcome message to the members for
> joining this forum.
> He also announced that now OIDF-J has 3 additional members: Hitachi, HP
> Japan, Indigo, that now it has 40 corporate members.
>
> Prof. Osamu Sudo is a renowned government advisor and is an advisor to the
> OpenID Foundation Japan.
> He gave us the current e-gov situation and his insight on how OpenID etc.
> can help the situation.
>
> Mr. Nishimaki gave an overview on the rationale for Yahoo! Japan to invest
> and support OpenID, and shared the roadmap with OIDF-J members. Also, he
> shared business ideas that Yahoo! Japan is considering right now.
> It was also good to hear Yahoo! Japan's basic privacy policy: "The customer
> owns the information he registered to Yahoo! Japan."
>
> Tatsuki gave us an update on the U.S. OpenID related development, such as
> the Board Election, New Working Groups being formed, XRD 1.0 at OASIS Open,
> etc. Then, he finished off his speach with the mention of OpenID PAPE - SAML
> Authn Context interoperability project which is supposed to be demoed at RSA
> 2009. This acted as a good introduction to HIroki's announcement and
> introduction of the OpenID-SAML Interop Concordia project.
>
> Nat gave a brief status report on the SIG formation etc. There has been
> bunch of SIG proposals and the option of starting them simultaneously were
> considered, but the direction now is to start one to debug the process, and
> then start others.
>
> Then, Mr. Uchiyama reported on the activities of the past two weeks
> including Web 2008 Conference that OIDF-J sponsored.
>
> The last portion was member announcement. There were two announcement.
>
> The first one was the announcement of mixi OpenID Competition for students.
> Awards are going to be given to the teams with implementation that leverage
> on the social graph represented by mixi OpenID. Juries are composed of two
> people from mixi, one from OIDF-J, and two others.
>
> The second announcement was the next OpenID BizDay hosted by Japan
> Airlines. It will be on January 16.
> It will feature Japan Airlines' OpenID strategies as keynote.
>
> II. e-Gov Guideline Creation Council - Security Working Group Meeting #3
>
> Right after the BizDay #1, Nat rushed to this meeting to give his
> presentation this council.
> This council is supposed to create a national guideline for e-Gov and
> possibly to the private sector for the usability and identity assurance.
> Prof. Sudo, an advisor to OIDF-J, is the chairman of this council. (Mr.
> Mitsushio, a member of OIDF-J, and the leader of the security working group
> of CIO aide of ministries, is another member of the council.)
>
> For details, see http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/it2/guide/index.html(Sorry, it is in Japanese.)
>
> The Agenda was as follows:
>
> 1. Opening Remarks
> 2. Status of E-Sigs usage
> 3. On the "Inference articles" of the e-sig and authentication law.
> 4. Technical Trends in the technologies that impacts user interface
>  4.1 SmartCards and NFC phones
>  4.2 Web SSO
>
> I could only attend 4.2 (i.e., my speech) because of BizDay #1 obligation,
> so I cannot report on anything but my speech and discussion followed it. My
> presentation was on OpenID and SAML including PAPE and CX proposal, and gave
> several case studies as well. It was very well accepted. In the following
> discussion, the importance of the NIST SP800-63 style assurance framework
> and guidelines that can be used across government and private sectors were
> noted.
>
> IMHO, this kind of activity is very important for OpenID adoption. There
> are many companies hesitant to become an RP because the assurance level and
> legal implication of being a RP is not clear. This kind of council will
> eventually come up with a national guideline and possibly a new law that
> covers these and thus make it much easier for something new like OpenID to
> be adopted.
>
>
> III. IdCon #4
>
> On Dec. 10, IdCon #4 was held, hosted by NRI.
>
> IdCon is a gathering of identity engineers and architects started earlier
> this year by tkudo and =zigorou.
> It is a grass-root activity which does not require a membership fee.
> It makes a good companion with OIDF-J, which is a for fee membership
> organization.
>
> IdCon #4 was a fifth such event this year. (We started off from IdCon #0,
> by the way.)
>
> IdCon #4 featured following sessions:
>
> - Possibility of Mobile OpenID, =zigorou, Cybozu Labs.
> - Liberty People Service, =hiroki, NTT Information Sharing Lab.
> - Recent Developments around OpenID, =nat, NRI
> - Drinking Party :-)
>
> =zigorou gave detailed analysis of the limitation of the current phones
> available in Japan and the impact of that to OpenID.
>
> =hiroki gave an overview of Liberty People Service.
>
> =nat gave an overview of the recent development around OpenID, such as the
> board election, new WGs, Dick Hardt going to Microsoft, etc.
>
> One of the feature of IdCon is that it always coupled with drinking party
> afterwards. It is a very valuable socializing event.
>
> The next IdCon (i.e., IdCon #5) will be hosted by NTT and expected to be
> around the cherry blossom time so that we can go on an outing for cherry
> blossom viewing afterwards.
>
>
> IV. Web 2008 Conference
>
> On Dec. 3, Web 2008 Expo was held in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
> OIDF-J sponsored the event.
>
> =nat gave the keynote speech, and OIDF-J hosted two sessions:
>  * Enterprise OpenID by Mr. Sakamoto of Verisign
>  * Internet and OpenID, Nob Seki, Vice-Chair OpenID Foundation Japan
> membership
>
> In the keynote, about 250 people showed up. In the break out sessions,
> somewhere between 50 to 70 people were there.
>
> To my surprise, almost everybody in the Keynote session knew OpenID, and
> judging from the hands raised, about 50% has one, 30% have used one, and 15%
> is still using it.
>
> Seki-san asked another question to the audience in his session: "Are you
> planning for starting an OpenID based service?"
>
> A lot of them were, which was encouraging.
>
> --
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
>
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