[OpenID] OpenID Japan Announces its incorporation with financial institutions, merchants, portals, etc. - Teams up with Liberty as well!

[Nat Sakimura]

This afternoon, OpenID Foundation Japan held a press conference with its 32
member companies. It is the first time that the member companies are
announced to the public. It was also announced that OpenID Foundation Japan
is now accepting the members from wider community.

Also, it has announced the partnership with Liberty Alliance Japan SIG to
further the harmnonization effort.

The member companies announced were:

Asahi Net (ISP)
Automation Research Associates (IT)
Cerego Japan (Education)
CyberTrust (CA)
Excite (ISP/Portal)
Infoteria Co. (Web Service Company)
Japan Airlines International (Transportation)
Japan IBM (IT)
Japan Verisign (CA)
JCB (Credit Card)
K Opticom (ISP)
KDDI (telco)
Lin Network (IT/Consulting)
Livedoor (Portal/Web 2.0)
Mitsui Sumitomo Marine (Insurance)
mixi Inc. (SNS)
NEC (Manufacturing)
NEC Biglobe (ISP)
Nifty (ISP/Portal)
Nomura Research Insititute (IT/Consulting)
Oki (Manufacturing)
Rakuten (Internet Commerce/Financial)
SBI Holdings (Financial group)
Senshukai (Internet Commerce)
Seven Bank (Financial)
SixApart (Web 2.0)
Softbank BB (telco/ISP)
Sonpo Japan Systems Solution (Insurance)
Taihei Computer (Internet Commerce)
Technorati Japan (Web 2.0)
Zakura (Web 2.0)

It is quite notable in the sense that now financial institutions such as
banks and insurance companies are now on board.

In the presentation, it was announced that it is going to do the following:

[Techinical]
- Technical Seminar Series "OpenID Tech Night"
- Create Implementation Guidelines
- Discuss potential extensions
- Translation of the documents
- Tech Competition and public experimentation
- Special Interest Groups (e.g., User Interface,
assurance, payment)

[Business]
- Creation of case studies and seminars
- Taking statistics
- Business Idea Competition
- Research on the legal aspects
- Business Seminar "OpenID BizDay"

[Public Relation]
- Seminars for pres people
- Seminar with extrernal organizations
- Web site
- Helping out to promote the OpenID services
of the members.

For more details, contact : contact at openid.or.jp

-- 
Nat Sakimura (=nat)
http://www.sakimura.org/en/
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