OASIS announced that the Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee has submitted two specifications for consideration by the membership as OASIS Standards. Balloting will begin on May 16, 2008 and extend through the end of the month.
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Member Ballot for OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Specification
Stephen.Wilson
Privacy expectations around biometrics
Here's one of the most bizarre lines I've ever seen in biometrics and national security:
Fingerprints 'not particularly private,' security czar says
Edmonton Sun, Thu 10 April 2008
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/04/10/5244996-sun.html
Stepwise Card-Not-Present fraud solution
"Safety in Numbers"
Stepwise is a specially formatted digital certificate that, when loaded onto an EMV smart credit card, turns it into the best available defence against CNP fraud and ID theft in general.
Stephen.Wilson
Catching on slowly to identity plurality
We should be in the middle of a true paradigm shift, to a new worldview based on a plurality of identities. The Laws of Identity point with great clarity to the reality that we each lay claim to a suite of identities. My own work in PKI over the years (see e.g. Public Key Superstructure) has led to a firm belief in the usefulness of multiple digital certificates, mapping on to multiple real worl identities.
Complimentary OASIS Webinar - Hear the Experts Describe the Relationship between OpenID, Higgins, i-names, and XDI - 6 May 2008
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT, 6 May 2008.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332275036
Overview:
What do OpenID, the Higgins Project, i-names, and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) all have in common? They all use the XRI 2.0 digital identifier specifications and XRDS discovery format from the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) Technical Committee. Come to this one-hour webinar and learn:

