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[higgins-dev] Technical Community and Industry Leaders announce formation of Information Card Foundation to Simplify Secure On-line Digital Identity
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- From: "Mary Ruddy" <mary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:04:42 -0400
- Delivered-to: higgins-dev@eclipse.org
- Thread-index: AcjWAzu/saR7sc1HRrKkwCYs84OyoQ==
Today Technical
Community and Industry Leaders announced the formation of the Information Card
Foundation.
Since the mission of
the Information Card Foundation is to Advance the use of the Information Card metaphor as a key
component of an open, interoperable, royalty-free, user-centric identity layer
spanning both the enterprise and the Internet.
It's activities will greatly benefit the
Higgins project by
- Providing
guidance and support for projects advancing Information Card infrastructure on
the widest possible range of platforms, including freely available open source
implementations.
- Promoting the adoption
of information cards
- Promoting interoperability via recommendations,
technical interoperability events, and working group reports for Information
Card technology, policy, and user experience.
- etc.