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Open Identity Exchange Takes Key Steps to Build Online Trust Ecosystem

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.

AT&T Joins OIX Board

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.

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OIX Launches U.S. ICAM Trust Framework Working Group

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 Plans Telecom Data Trust Framework Working Group

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 Leads Catalyst Conference Interop Demonstration

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:

  • Practical applications of online identity credentials compatible with the U.S. ICAM trust framework identity trust framework developed by the U.S. Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) Subcommittee and implemented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. federal agencies.
  • Examples of using online credentials across multiple trust federations at different levels of assurance (LOA).
  • Illustration of how open identity protocols enable new mobile applications.

OIX and Kantara Begin Trust Framework Collaboration

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:

  1. Develop a joint approach to federation services and trust framework certification by offering certification options for the KI Identity Assurance Framework on the OIX Trust Framework Platform.
  2. Develop common listing services and policy best practices in response to growing needs for trust frameworks spanning all types of networks, transactions, and jurisdictions around the globe.
  3. Identify additional areas of synergy for trust framework operations and testing.

Read the full press release.


Open Identity Exchange Launches at RSA

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.

Read the full release.

Other OIX News

Open Identity Exchange: enabling all the VISAs of identity - March 3, 2010

On the Launch of the Open Identity Exchange - TheSocialWeb.TV Video - March 5, 2010

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