Replies to post #119348 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[SheldonLevine]

titlewave, re: dot?

It is no secret that Symantec employees are and have been actively involved in developing the TNC specifications.

For example, look at the roster from the IF-PEP / RADIUS spec...Juniper, Symantec, Meetinghouse Comm., Vernier, and Wave are all represented, as well as HP, IBM, Avaya, and Motorola, and Thomas Hardjono from SignaCert.

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Acknowledgements

The TCG wishes to thank all those who contributed to this specification. This document builds on numerous works done in the various working groups in the TCG.

Special thanks to the members of the TNC contributing to this document:

Mahalingam Mani Avaya
Kazuaki Nimura Fujitsu Limited
Boris Balacheff Hewlett-Packard
Mauricio Sanchez (Editor) Hewlett-Packard
Dianna Arroyo IBM
Lee Terrell IBM
Ravi Sahita Intel
Ned Smith Intel
Barbara Nelson iPass
Steve Hanna (TNC co-chair) Juniper Networks
Gene Chang Meetinghouse Data Communications
John Vollbrecht Meetinghouse Data Communications
Sandilya Garimella Motorola
Joseph Tardo Nevis Networks
Thomas Hardjono SignaCert, Inc.
Bryan Kingsford Symantec
Rich Langston Symantec
Babak Salimi Symantec
Paul Sangster (TNC co-chair) Symantec
Scott Cochrane Wave Systems
Greg Kazimierczak Wave Systems
Doug Klein Vernier Networks
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Interop PR:

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INTEROP, LAS VEGAS, MAY 1, 2006 – Networking industry companies with products supporting the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specifications from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) for network security and endpoint integrity today announced results of a recent interoperability test hosted by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).

ProCurve Networking by HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Meetinghouse, Nortel, Symantec, and Wave Systems participated in the two-day event. At the event, these vendors tested hardware and software supporting the TNC specifications in a simulated enterprise environment. The vendors demonstrated interoperability across several TNC interfaces:

• The integrity measurement and collector interfaces, available since May 2005, allow TNC clients and servers to load and use plug-in software components from different vendors, enabling easy integration of software from many vendors into a complete TNC system.

• The new policy enforcement point interface, announced this week, enables network hardware from any vendor to serve as a policy enforcement point in a TNC system.

Additionally, the group successfully tested interoperability on an integrity measurement collector, based on a preliminary TNC Platform Trust Services specification that will be released later this year, working with clients that had a Trusted Platform Module (TPM).

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Is it any surprise that the companies involved in the demo are the same as those developing the specifications?

BTW, interoperability for IMC across TPM vendors will be provided by Wave via their CSP/TCG-enabled middleware. This is why I have stated in the past that Wave has a lock on the client side despite the development of Web Services interfaces, and that the Wave CSP will become "the JVM of trust". IMO.

Regards

SL