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

[Dick Hardt]

Congrats Nat!

On 30-Oct-08, at 1:06 AM, Nat Sakimura wrote:

> 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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