OASIS Members Form New Committee to Advance Interoperability Standard for Information Cards.IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , CA, Microsoft, Nortel, Novell, the US Department of Defense, VeriSign, and Others Collaborate on Personal Digital Identity BOSTON -- OASIS, the international open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced consortium, has formed a new group to enable the use of Information Cards to universally manage personal digital identities. The OASIS Identity Metasystem An infrastructure that enables different Internet identity systems to work in a secure manner with a consistent user interface. The identity metasystem was first developed by Microsoft and is embodied in the CardSpace system (see Windows CardSpace). Interoperability (IMI IMI International Masonry Institute (Washington, DC) IMI Israel Military Industries IMI Institute of the Motor Industry IMI International Market Insight IMI Imposto Municipal Sobre Imóveis (Portugal) ) Technical Committee will work to increase the quality and number of interoperable implementations of Information Cards. A rapidly-developing, Web 2.0-friendly method for shared light authentication, Information Cards let people authenticate themselves on multiple web sites without maintaining passwords for each site. Information Cards offer tremendous potential for people to access online services with greater privacy, security, and ease. To realize the full benefits of Information Cards, however, broad interoperability across platforms and services is crucial. The goal of IMI is to provide the interoperability support that will enable Information Card use to become ubiquitous. Each Information Card provides a visual snapshot of a person's digital identity and a description of the individual's relationship to the provider that issued the card. A person may have a collection of Information Cards from various providers. Individuals organize their Information Cards through an Identity Selector The software in an identity metasystem that resides in the user's computer. Also called a "card selector." See identity metasystem. and choose which card they want to use for each type of online interaction. "IMI will assure the portability of Information Card content by defining a standard method of transferring collections of Information Cards between Identity Selectors," explained Abbie Barbir of Nortel, convener of the OASIS IMI Technical Committee. "Our work has relevance for many Web 2.0 use cases as well as a host of consumer and corporate applications." The new Committee intends to base its work on contributed specifications including the Identity Selector Interoperability Profile from Microsoft, the Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. Addressing Endpoint References and Identity specification from IBM and Microsoft See Microsoft and IBM. , and the OSIS OSIS Open Source Information System (now Intelink-U; US DOD) OSIS Ocean Surveillance Information System OSIS One-Stop Internet Shop (European Union) OSIS Open Scriptural Information Standard (Open Source Identity Systems) Feature Tests from Identity Commons Identity Commons is the first trust federation implementing Dataweb technology to build an open global network for persistent identity and trusted data sharing. Identity Commons worked with XDI. . "We're very excited to have the IMI work advanced through OASIS," noted James Bryce James Bryce can refer to:
IMI will be offered for implementation on a royalty-free basis. Participation in the OASIS IMI Technical Committee remains open to all interested parties. Archives of the work will be accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS will offer a mechanism for public comment. The first meeting will be held 29 Sept, near London, in conjunction with the OASIS Security Standards Forum. Support for IMI CA "We believe that the formation of the OASIS IMI Technical Committee is a critical step in the evolution and success of a new paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. . CA recognizes the importance of a user-centric Identity Metasystem and will work with other industry leaders to move this paradigm forward," said Jeffrey Broberg, Senior Director, Security Product Management at CA. Microsoft "It's exciting that so many companies and projects have come together to standardize the protocols and data formats for interoperable Information Cards. The OASIS technical committee will build on the substantial interoperability work done within OSIS and apply the lessons learned there. All this will help bring the benefits of claims-based digital identity to enterprises and the Internet, on any platform and on any device," said Kim Cameron, chief architect of identity at Microsoft. Novell "Information Card systems provide an important advancement to online identity capabilities. Such systems can increase users' understanding and convenience in online transactions, while giving them better privacy and security. Both Novell and OSIS look forward to working with the IMI Committee to produce open standards that maximize the benefits of Information Card systems," said Dale Olds, distinguished engineer at Novell and steward of the OSIS working group of Identity Commons. Additional information: OASIS IMI Technical Committee http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/imi/ OASIS Security Forum http://events.oasis-open.org/home/forum/2008 About OASIS: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society. A not-for-profit consortium, OASIS advances standards for SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. , security, Web services, documents, e-commerce, government and law, localisation (programming) localisation - (l10n) Adapting a product to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market "locale". Localisation includes the translation of the user interface, on-line help and documentation, and ensuring the images and , supply chains, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. processing, and other areas of need identified by its members. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. http://www.oasis-open.org |
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