[Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Internet Society Joins Liberty Alliance Management Board

[Greg Wood]

Hello,
For your information, here is a news release to be distributed later  
today about the Internet Society joining the Liberty Alliance  
management board.
Sincerely,
-Greg

Greg Wood
Internet Society
wood at isoc.org
+1-703-439-2145

INTERNET SOCIETY JOINS LIBERTY ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT BOARD

Move Marks Importance of Identity Management Across Internet  
Initiatives, Highlights Benefits of Cross-Industry Collaboration in  
the Identity Sector

Washington, D.C.--February 24, 2009--Liberty Alliance, the global  
identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for  
businesses, governments and people, today announced that the Internet  
Society (ISOC) has become a member of the Liberty Alliance Management  
Board. ISOC joins 2009 Liberty Alliance board members from AOL, BT,  
CA, Fidelity Investments, Intel, Novell, NTT, Oracle and Sun  
Microsystems. The management board is responsible for driving the  
strategic direction of Liberty Alliance on a global basis.

The Internet Society is an independent international nonprofit  
organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related  
standards, education and policy. As a Liberty Alliance board member,  
ISOC has a leadership role in ongoing Liberty Alliance collaboration  
activities, working with other standards bodies, industry groups and  
identity-related organizations, to help foster interoperability and  
harmonization of Internet-based initiatives, specifications and  
protocols.

According to Lucy Lynch, director of trust and identity initiatives,  
ISOC, "The Internet Society is pleased to join Liberty Alliance in  
promoting and developing the technical foundations of online identity  
and trust that will be crucial in supporting interoperable, secure and  
privacy-preserving applications and services on the Internet. ISOC is  
eager to participate in Liberty Alliance's well-established  
collaborative processes to help ensure that the specifications upon  
which these new technologies are built will promote continued  
innovation and serve the interests of all Internet users around the  
world. The discipline and experience reflected in Liberty Alliance's  
processes, specifically related to specification development based on  
clearly identified market requirements, provide an excellent platform  
to positively impact progress in the identity space."

About Liberty Alliance
Liberty Alliance is the only global identity community with a  
membership base that includes technology vendors, consumer service  
providers and educational and government organizations working  
together to build a more trustworthy Internet by addressing the  
technology, policy and privacy aspects of digital identity management.  
The membership structure includes opportunities for individuals,  
government and nonprofit organizations to participate at reduced  
rates, or free-of-charge, and a growing ecosystem of industry-specific  
special interest groups (SIGs), formed by market leaders active in  
Liberty Alliance, such as eGovernment and Healthcare, working to  
ensure their specialized identity management and services requirements  
are being met by emerging technology and policy frameworks. A list of  
members is available at http://tinyurl.com/73fugy

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CONTACT:

Russ DeVeau
Liberty Alliance
e-mail: russd at projectliberty.org
twitter: http://twitter.com/LibertyRus