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To: jean who wrote (13358)	5/5/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) of 26039

A Novell-Citigroup connection . . . From the Novell website: novell.com ""Directory-Enabled Technology for Control of Personal Identity on the Internet" "On March 22, 1999, Novell® will announce digitalme™, a new technology development and licensing initiative that leverages Novell Directory Services® (NDS®) to enable Internet users to manage their identity information on the Internet "Novell will also announce a partnership with Citigroup to collaborate and refine digitalme features and functionality and create open standards for Internet identity "In a proof-of-concept demonstration, Novell will provide attendees at BrainShare with "meCards" allowing them to create and exchange their digital identity information over the Novell Connecting Points network" =========================== Novell is trying to establish a universe in which its network level controls (its directories) can confirm a user's identity no matter where the user enters the network from -- say, home or work. That way the user can control his or her electronic identity through the Novell 'front' -- kind of like an unnumbered Swiss bank account that discloses only what you allow disclosed. (Of course, you have to be able to trust the bank.) What's the most obvious and easiest and cheapest way to do that? By having the users provide the same biometric identifier to the Novell directory that is trying to sort out who is who at the other end. And what could be more elegant a solution than a biometrically-encoded smart card that the user carries from place to place? And having Verisign use the fingerprint template as a digital signature would protect any information the user includes over the Internet. This is where Citigroup comes in, I think. Citigroup has been active in biometrics and undertook a smart card pilot in NYC that didn't do too well. It failed because it offered no real advantages over money. Citigroup figured that out, and is about to go with another pilot with more smart card features. Maybe this new one will have a digitalme element. I believe Citigroup has IDX holdings, by the way. They may be in the BioAPI alliance; I'll have to check. See how this is all starting to fall into place?

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