2008 Q3 Report Information Card Foundation

Background

 * http://informationcard.net - main website
 * http://informationcard.net/wiki - main wiki (some ICF WGs have their own wikis as well)
 * Executive Director: Charles Andres (candres@informationcard.net)

Successes

 * Information Card Foundation has grown to more than 50 members.
 * The Board of Directors was expanded to include Deutsche Telekom and Intel
 * In September 2 new Community Members were nominated by the Board and elected by the entire membership. The vote was done using Helios, a new electronic voting system that is verifiable and anonymous. The two new members are:
 * Craig Burton
 * Scott Loftesness


 * The following working groups were formed, approved, and are now active:
 * OASIS Coordination Working Group -- coordinates efforts between ICF and OASIS Technical Committees working on standards affecting information cards. This includes the SSTC and IMI TC
 * RP Evangelists Working Group -- Promoting information card adoption to relying party sites
 * Browser Integration Working Group --
 * Website Best Practices Working Group -- focusing on getting a consistent ceremony for users at all sites regardless of the user's state (do they have a selector? have they been to the site before? Is the site issuing a card? asking for claims? etc.)
 * Schemas Working Group -- defining a lightweight human and machine-readable claim and data type to ensure that like claims are treated the same by the entire information card ecosystem.


 * Information Card Foundation was prominent at DIDW by:
 * sponsoring the OSIS Interop
 * having a booth on the floor of the show
 * participating in 11 sessions, either run by, staffed by, or participated in by ICF members


 * Information Card Foundation is promoting a discussion with Identity Commons for a common unified marketing message to minimize marketplace confusion between various identity systems and methods.

Requests
Please feel free to contribute to Unified_Messaging_Wiki
 * Identity Commons is the place for a common unified marketing message to be agreed upon. see Unified_Messaging_Charter