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

[Nat Sakimura]

Re: Liberty Japan SIG-- It is about the Harmonization of both marketing
message and technology. (Note: it is not unification nor convergence, but
harmonization.)



On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:37 AM
> To: Dick Hardt <dick.hardt at gmail.com>
> Cc: OpenID List <general at openid.net>
> 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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