San Diego – July 27, 2010 – Open Identity Exchange (OIX) today made a series of key announcements at the Burton Catalyst 2010 conference about how it is advancing the development of digital trust frameworks to enable trusted transactions over public and private networks.
OIX announced that AT&T has joined as its newest board member, joining digital identity thought leaders Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, and CA Technologies. By taking this step, AT&T demonstrates their strong commitment to consumer control of personal information as essential to the effectiveness of online transactions. Read the full press release.
OIX launched the OIX U.S. ICAM Trust Framework for Level of Assurance 1 (LOA 1) on March 3, 2010 as the first trust framework providers approved to meet the requirements set forth by the U.S. Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Committee. This trust framework enables the American public to participate in open, transparent, and participatory government while maintaining full control of how much or how little personal information they share with federal websites.
Now OIX has chartered the OIX U.S. ICAM Trust Framework Working Group to draft the specifications for extending the framework to cover Levels of Assurance 2 and 3, which will provide the stronger levels of identity assurance necessary for U.S. citizens to access tax records, benefits, licenses, and other personally identifying information online.
View the U.S. ICAM Trust Framework Working Group Charter.
OIX announced that its members are forming a Telecom Data Trust Framework Working Group to solve the problem of how commerce providers, like retailers and etailers, can obtain or verify online identity information without interfering in the relationship between a subscriber and their Telecom Service Provider. This trust framework will address how best to provide a secure and controlled structure by which a telephone number may be used to access personally identifying information while holding private subscriber data “in trust”.
View the Telecom Data Trust Framework Working Group Charter.
OIX and other open identity leaders including the OpenID Foundation, Information Card Foundation, Identity Commons, and Kantara will demonstrate uses of open identity as a business enabler in an interoperability event held at the 2010 Burton Catalyst conference. This demonstration will showcase:
OIX and the Kantara Initiative (KI) announced today they have begun collaborating on digital trust framework development to advance adoption of a global online trust ecosystem. OIX and KI agreed to the following high-level goals for collaboration:
Washington, D.C. and San Francisco — March 3, 2010 — Industry leaders Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton today announced at the RSA Conference 2010 the formation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) www.openidentityexchange.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors. With initial grants from the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and Information Card Foundation (ICF), OIX has been approved as a trust framework provider by the United States Government to certify online identity management providers to U.S. federal standards for identity assurance.
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