All interested parties are invited to participate in the new OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS) Technical Committee. The group plans to develop a system that provides the ability to use common data formats for representing reputation data and standard definitions of reputation scores.

Posting innocuous personal details on social websites could expose millions to fraud, says Heather McLean. Our love affair with social networking, it appears, may be coming to an end. After almost 18 months of exponential growth, Facebook has suffered its first UK dip in user numbers, down from 8.9-million unique users in December to 8.5-million in January, a drop of five per cent. MySpace also experienced a five per cent downturn in user numbers, while Bebo's unique visitor numbers fell two per cent in the same period.

The OASIS IDtrust Member Section is pleased to co-sponsor 'IDtrust 2008'
March 4-6, 2008 -- NIST -- Gaithersburg, MD
http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2008/
OASIS member speakers are well represented on the programme with various
presentations that include; Identity Protection Factor (IPF), OpenID
Identity Discovery with XRI and XRDS, Identity and Policy for Security,
Trust and Privacy, Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS), OASIS and the
IDtrust Member Section, Public Key Superstructure, Securing the core with an
Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure (EKMI), OpenID: Cur