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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Very impressive Statistics! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The Japan becomes the bow of the OpenID ship!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Congratulation for the hard work of OIDF-J Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>-Snorri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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general-bounces@openid.net [mailto:general-bounces@openid.net] <b>De la part de</b>
Nat Sakimura<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> vendredi 17 octobre 2008 14:00<br>
<b>À :</b> general@openid.net<br>
<b>Objet :</b> [OpenID] Latest Development in Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I have been sooo busy that I did not produce any report on
OpenID developments in Japan since last I have done for mixi back in August. <br>
<br>
There has been bunch of notable events since then. <br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>2008-9-12 Livedoor Blog adopted "mixi
OpenID" group authentication for their blog service. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> It allows the blog article to be
published to a limited group. The<span style='color:#1F497D'>y </span> same is
true for commenting etc. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> Livedoor is one of the major blog
provider in Japan (besides many other things.) They are also acting as OP. </span><br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>2008-9-29 NEC released an Authentication
Platform Software "NC7000-3A-OI" that supports OpenID. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> It is a federated identity system. It
supports both SAML and OpenID. </span><br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>2008-10-02 SourceForge.JP started to support
OpenID </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> Unlike <a href="http://sourceforge.net">sourceforge.net</a>,
it also supports XRI/i-names. </span><br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>2008-10-06 BIGLOBE started offering OpenID</span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> One of the biggest ISP in Japan, NEC
BIGLOBE started the service as an OP. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> It uses EV-SSL, and is https only OP. </span><br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>2008-10-06 Rakuten, the biggest online merchant
in Japan, started offering OpenID based payment</span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> Rakuten, the biggest online merchant in
Japan, started offering OpenID based payment. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> By using this system, you will not
required to give out your credit card number. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> (You are still required to input security
code of the credit card, though.)</span><br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>2008-10-15 Internet.com Survay: 28% Japanese
Internet User are aware of OpenID. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> Accroding to the survay by <a
href="http://internet.com">internet.com</a> and marsh research which was
conducted </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> over 300 internet user (50% male, 50%
female, 20% each of 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s), </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> 263 of them were using sites that
requires authentication. Among them, 28% of them </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> knew about OpenID, and 15% were using
OpenID. </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> This is a big increase compared to a
similar survay back in February where </span><br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated> only 12% knew about OpenID and only 1.2%
of them were using it. </span><br>
<br>
<span class=d3blogentrycreated>Cheers, </span><br>
<br>
-- <br>
Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br>
<a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br>
OpenID Foundation Japan<o:p></o:p></p>
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