A couple of points
1. Doma as always THANKS! Would it be useful to update that chart of yours?
2 Note on the Dell Site it's a special section labeled
SYSTEM authentication products. SYSTEM authentication = Device Autentication = ATTESTATION. I love the Dell marketing team
They are saying with a separate section you have to go beyond personal authentication.
Meanwhile another group is working to catch up on personal identification....Wave is a member and if you remember SKS presented here last year. Here's some progress there that either I missed or don't remember from February amid the initial Dell excitement:
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Electronic Authentication Partnership Elects First Board,
Will Test Rules for Interoperability of Online Authentication
Washington, DC, February 7, 2005 - The Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP) has elected its first Board of Directors to oversee the next phase of its work, which includes pilot programs to test its landmark Trust Framework. The EAP, with over 50 corporate and government agency participants, promotes interoperability among public and private online authentication systems. The Trust Framework provides rules and procedures so that an electronic credential issued by an EAP-certified participant could be relied on by any other EAP participant.
“The obstacle to widespread online authentication isn’t technology, it’s a lack of accepted rules for trust,” said James Lewis, the Interim Chair of the EAP and Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “The EAP’s Trust Framework is a major achievement by a public-private partnership that gives companies and individuals a way to determine how much they can trust a credential issued by someone else.”
“In conducting the pilots,” Lewis said, “the EAP will be able to count on the oversight of a talented Board that draws from a broad cross-section of the authentication industry.”
The new Board of Directors, which was elected in January 2005, is composed of 16 members:
Voting Board Members
Mr. Khaja Ahmed, Microsoft Corporation
Ms. Catherine A. Allen, BITS
Mr. James DeVaul, KPMG
Mr. Glen B. Gainer III, Auditor, State of West Virginia, representing the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT)
Ms. Jane Hennessy, Wells Fargo
Mr. John Jackson, General Motors Corporation
Ms. Linda Lewis-Pickett, American Association of Motor Vehicles Administration
Ms. Judy Lin, VeriSign, Inc.
Mr. Elliott C. McEntee, NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association
Mr. Gabe Minton, Mortgage Bankers Association
Mr. Jack Radzikowski, Northrop Grumman
Mr. Howard Schmidt, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Mr. Michael D. Sessa, Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council
Mr. Bill Smith, Sun Microsystems, representing the Liberty Alliance Project
Mr. James Wagner, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Federal Advisor
Mr. David Temoshok, General Services Administration
The EAP’s Trust Framework includes common business rules for organizations that issue and accept online credentials, as well as for third-party processors and those involved in accrediting credential issuers. The Trust Framework addresses the vetting of identities before digital credentials are issued, ensures that there is a common understanding about the credentials’ levels of assurance, and establishes uniform criteria and processes for evaluating credential issuers.
The EAP’s next business meeting will take place on February 9, 2005 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, NW in Washington, DC. Organizations that are not currently EAP participants can register to attend as guests on the EAP web site. Additional information on the meeting, the EAP, and the Trust Framework are available on the EAP’s web site at www.eapartnership.org.
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