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

[Peter Williams]

Teams up with liberty? During a founding event?

Tell more. I note the liason is only with a "sig". Is this relevant?

On the one hand that's excellent, on the other its worrying.

With microsoft, google, and yahoo in the us going fine now on pure web momentum, I don't worry about a liberty culture taking over.

If there occurs another round of saml convergence .... Led by engineers ... then fine!

Feels very my like the internet pki moment of 1996 when the scrappy world of netscape and verisign/saic/visa and microsft then met dod, ibm, nortel, hp, gte, citi, pwc ...introducing key escrow wars, audit and insurance regulation ... and the whole "spooky way" that crypto standards got (de)formed (in the us national security community) in those days when it was us policy to suppress rsa math.

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From: Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
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Subject: [LIKELY_SPAM]Re: [OpenID] OpenID Japan Announces its incorporation with financial institutions, merchants, portals, etc. - Teams up with Liberty as well!

Thanks Dick.

There were 45 press people including a TV.
Among the 32 member companies, 23 were present.

It shows the hight interest of the people towards OpenID in Japan.

Oh. One more thing.

Portal "Excite Japan" announced the availability of OpenID for Excite Japan Users in conjunction with it.

=nat

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com<mailto:dick.hardt at gmail.com>> wrote:
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<mailto:contact at openid.or.jp>

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