re: Liberty Alliance adds important members
Current membership:
American Express NTT DoCoMo
AOL Time Warner Openwave Systems
Bell Canada United Airlines
Global Crossing RealNetworks
France Telecom RSA Security
General Motors Sony Corporation
Hewlett-Packard Sun Microsystems
MasterCard United Airlines
Nokia Vodafone
Note of course Microsoft's absence, and Sun Microsystems presence. Sony, Vodafone, and DoCoMo seem to be in all the alliances with Nokia.
American Express, and MasterCard International are important players in this initiative. There was some conjecture that the major Credit/Debit financial players were at cross purposes with the Liberty Alliance. VISA is still notably missing, as are many of the terminal players.
>> Liberty Alliance Demonstrates Momentum With Increased Membership And Industry Support
December 19, 2001
Cross-Industry Consortium Continues Collaboration to Develop Open, Federated, Single Sign-on Network Identity and Opens New Membership Level
PALO ALTO, Calif. - December 19, 2001 -
The Liberty Alliance Project, committed to developing and deploying open standards for network identity, today announced the addition of seven industry-leading companies as founding members and members of the management board. Those seven companies include: American Express, AOL Time Warner, France Telecom, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard Company, MasterCard International and a major commercial bank. The other founders of the Alliance and members of the management board are: Bell Canada, Global Crossing, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RealNetworks, RSA Security, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines and Vodafone.
The Alliance is opening the coalition to sponsor-level membership, which provides full participation in Alliance activities for those companies interested in playing an active role. The participating companies will hold their next Alliance meeting in January. More information on membership is available at www.projectliberty.org.
"With dozens of trusted, worldwide, industry-leading companies participating and over 3,000 inquiries for more information about membership, the Liberty Alliance continues to gain critical mass and represent hundreds of millions of customers," said Eric Dean, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and chief information officer of United Airlines. "The Alliance is rapidly moving forward to develop a commercially-viable, open, ubiquitous standard for network identity, authentication and authorization across a multitude of business systems and consumer products touched by the Internet - from cellular phones to Web browsers and automobiles."
In addition to the founding members, other companies that have expressed their intent to participate in the Liberty Alliance include: ActivCard, American Airlines, the Apache Software Foundation, Bank of America, Cingular Wireless, Cisco Systems, CollabNet, Dun and Bradstreet, eBay, Entrust, Fidelity Investments, Gemplus, i2, Intuit, Liberate Technologies, O'Reilly and Associates, Sabre, Schlumberger, Sprint, Travelocity and Verisign.
About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) is an alliance formed to create open, federated, single sign-on identity standards for the digital economy via any device connected to the Internet. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations.
Note: Liberty is a code name for this formative initiative.
Liberty Alliance Support
"American Express is pleased to join the Liberty Alliance to extend our role in empowering consumers with convenience and choice when using the Internet. The Alliance underscores our commitment to supporting open technology and services that will enhance the range of choice for consumers, safeguard online privacy and security, and give consumers ultimate control over what information is shared, when it is shared, and with whom. The range of global companies participating in the Alliance will be important to establishing universal standards for convenient, secure online commerce." - Glen Salow, Executive vice president and Chief Information Officer, American Express
"We believe the Liberty Alliance's cooperative and decentralized approach will encourage both competition and consumer choice in this important new space, while protecting privacy and security. The Liberty Alliance's open, federated architecture is the best solution for both consumers and the growth of the medium and will offer a platform on which to build the next generation of online services." - Barry Schuler, chairman and CEO, America Online, Inc.
"The cooperative model of GSM, which is open to all industry players, partners and competitors, has been the key to the success of the GSM. In the same way, the open and decentralized standard promoted by the Liberty Alliance for the authentication of clients represents a turning point in the development of the on-line service market. We are proud to contribute our experience to the Alliance." - Jean-Jacques Damlamian, executive vice president, France Telecom
"By joining the Liberty Alliance, HP reaffirms its longstanding commitment to supporting open industry standards and market-unifying architectures. Our goal is to increase customer access to interoperable technologies and to stimulate the broadest spectrum of innovation in our industry. Participating in this alliance levels the playing field for IT developers and opens the door for industry-wide collaboration on important matters such as building secure and trusted architectures." - Rich DeMillo, vice president and chief technology officer, Hewlett-Packard Company
"MasterCard is committed to providing a secure environment for all payment transactions, including electronic commerce and mobile commerce. Our active participation on the board of directors for the Liberty Alliance Project will benefit our members by helping to ensure that our efforts towards guaranteed payments over remote channels are consistent with open standards for broad industry adoption." - Art Kranzley, chief e-Business officer, MasterCard International <<
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