2008 Q3 Report Information Card Foundation

Background

• http://informationcard.net - main website
• http://informationcard.net/wiki - main wiki (some ICF WGs have their own wikis as well)
• Executive Director: Charles Andres (candres@informationcard.net)

Successes

• Information Card Foundation has grown to more than 50 members.
• The Board of Directors was expanded to include Deutsche Telekom and Intel
• In September 2 new Community Members were nominated by the Board and elected by the entire membership. The vote was done using Helios, a new electronic voting system that is verifiable and anonymous. The two new members are:
  • Craig Burton
  • Scott Loftesness

• The following working groups were formed, approved, and are now active:
  • OASIS Coordination Working Group -- coordinates efforts between ICF and OASIS Technical Committees working on standards affecting information cards. This includes the SSTC and IMI TC
  • RP Evangelists Working Group -- Promoting information card adoption to relying party sites
  • Browser Integration Working Group --
  • Website Best Practices Working Group -- focusing on getting a consistent ceremony for users at all sites regardless of the user's state (do they have a selector? have they been to the site before? Is the site issuing a card? asking for claims? etc.)
  • Schemas Working Group -- defining a lightweight human and machine-readable claim and data type to ensure that like claims are treated the same by the entire information card ecosystem.

• Information Card Foundation was prominent at DIDW by:
  • sponsoring the OSIS Interop
  • having a booth on the floor of the show
  • participating in 11 sessions, either run by, staffed by, or participated in by ICF members

• Information Card Foundation is promoting a discussion with Identity Commons for a common unified marketing message to minimize marketplace confusion between various identity systems and methods.

Requests

• Identity Commons is the place for a common unified marketing message to be agreed upon. see Unified_Messaging_Charter

Please feel free to contribute to Unified_Messaging_Wiki