Abe... Awk... Reach...
Abe, I set up a false expectation with the "header" for my FIXS post. My intention was to pretty much put all the basic elements of the big theme in just one post. My apologies.
Awk and Reach and Weby and others who have been following FIXS: Thanks. I had posted the link to the NACHA "Future of Authentication" event, but missed other stuff. The Iana Bohmer presentation to the EAP is THE best summary of what DCCIS/FIXS has been and is all about.
My one post wasn't trying to put all the LINKS in a single place. I must have left off, easily, 10 other links... including a SIGNALS magazine article.
But, Abe, as to WHAT IT ALL (or the lion's ahare of it) MEANS:
** Wave, as a Small Business Founding Partner, has played (in my opinion) a pivotal role in helping DCIS/FIXS get to this point. Why do I think this? Because ALMOST all of the topics that FIXS has been, a-hem, fixated upon are topics that Wave has been exploring for a long time.
** Thus, the fact that FIXS is now about to cooperate with EAP for EAP's first trial... and the fact that FIXS is introducing itself to the TSCP... and the fact that FIXS is being promoted by NACHA, the important banking/clearinghouse/financial service standards organization... puts, in my opinion, Wave's expertise and TRUSTED computing into some highly influential circles.
** Viewed one way: You can easily see the role that an EMBASSY 2100 smart card reader (though these have been de-emphasized) would play within a FIXS scheme. But, one can read for one's self that FIXS views "trusted computing" as part of the HOW of what it is trying to achieve.
** BOTTOM LINE: Wave (its expertise and technologies) is sitting at or near the center of a government-backed, government-endorsed identity FEDERATION Network that is, in my estimation, rapidly becoming THE LEAD EXAMPLE for government, suppliers to the Department of Defense, the BANKING industry, other industries... and even other governments (via TSCP.) You can see, if you follow the trail, that FIXS is gaining momentum as other groups and others who are dealing with initiatives like HSPD-12 (the first part of which has to be underway by October) are SEEING progress and wanting on board the bandwagon.
(There are things I am STILL wrestling with here. For example, I found in one set of meeting notes a reference to the fact that DCIS/FIXS is tied into something called "DFAR"... the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations. But, I'm not sure the implications of that.)
However, as big as all this stuff is, one does have to factor in the REALITIES of government... the slowest of slow-grinding wheels.
Best Regards,
c m
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