<html><head><base href="x-msg://588/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I will probably be at the eema conference in London in June. Are you planning on coming to that?<div><br></div><div>I am on the program committee for the OASIS IDTrust track.</div><div><br></div><div>John B.<br><div><div>On 2010-02-02, at 7:42 PM, Kick Willemse wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="NL" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">All,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">On the 16th and 17th of March I will be in Brussels for the e-ID interop. The conference is organized by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://eema.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">eema.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and sponsored by SWIFT and BBS.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span lang="EN-US">There will be some interesting speakers, as soon as I have the program confirmed I will share it on the list.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: normal; font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext; ">The conference typically attracts 150 attendees from business, public sector and government from countries throughout Europe and also further a field. In 2009 participating organisations came from 17 countries, including 30% from Government/public sector, 20% from user organisations included Motorola, Total, KPMG, Siemens, Visa International, European Commission, Euroclear Bank and the UK HM Revenue and Customs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">On the second day of the conference I will facilitate a roundtable session to talk about the opportunities of OpenID, Open Identity in general within the European e-ID Landscape.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">I think it is a good opportunity to discuss the way how OpenID is able to contribute to the current e-id situation in different member states. Looking at the weaknesses of current e-ID schemes (no use in business environments because limitations of personal public service numbers, poor application support, security levels in no proportion to business transactions, no daily use, attribute sharing, no multi channel support (Mobile, CyberCafé etc..) it is worthwhile to have an open discussion how OpenID could( or not) bridge this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">If you have an interest in this topic, discussed/ experimented with opportunities like this before or able to introduce a representative of an OIDF corporate member promoting the philosophy of open identity, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Kick<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@lists.openid.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">general@lists.openid.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-general</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>