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

MasterCard and Visa may be trying to whip merchants into shape with their carrot-and-stick approach, but legislators in Wisconsin seem to think that the force of law has a better chance.

Members of the IETF SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE) Working Group have released an initial Internet Draft for "Optimizing Federated Presence with View Sharing." Presence federation refers to the exchange of presence information between systems. One of the primary challenges in presence federation is scale. With a large number of watchers in one domain obtaining presence for many presentities in another, the amount of notification traffic is large.

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