address@hidden: RE: Sun to Launch Digital ID, May Take on Microsoft]

[Norbert Bollow]

FYI...

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X-From_: address@hidden  Wed Sep 26 18:57:25 2001
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From: "Anne Thomas Manes" <address@hidden>
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Subject: RE: Sun to Launch Digital ID, May Take on Microsoft
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:57:26 -0700
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The Liberty announcement is at
http://www.sun.com/software/cover/2001-0926/;$sessionid$GJOEUEAAAB4PTAMTA1FU
4GQ

(or go to http://sun.com and click on the Liberty Alliance button in the
upper right hand corner of the page.)

You can also go to www.projectliberty.org.

Charter members include ActivCard, American Airlines, Apache Software
Foundation, Bank of America, Bell Canada, Cingular Wireless, Cisco,
CollabNet, Dun & Bradstreet, eBay, Entrust, Fidelity, Gemplus, GM, GLobal
Crossing, i2, Intuit, Liberate Technologies, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, O'Reiily,
OpenWave, RealNetworks, RSA Security, Sabre, Schlumberger, Sony, Sprint,
Sun, Travelocity, United Airlines, Verisign, and Vodafone.

There's no mention of XNS, OneName, or any real technology.

Anne Thomas Manes
CTO, Idoox


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Johann Beda
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:14 AM
> To: XNS Talk
> Subject: Re: Sun to Launch Digital ID, May Take on Microsoft
>
>
> On 2001/09/25, at 10:13 PM -0500, Wesley Felter wrote:
> >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010925/tc/tech_sun_microsoft_dc_1.html
> >
> >Wesley Felter - address@hidden - http://felter.org/wesley/
> >
> ..."Sun said in a statement on Tuesday that Scott McNealy, chief executive
> and chairman, would unveil the initiative ''surrounding digital identity
> solutions'' with an alliance of industry partners in a Wednesday morning
> conference call..."
>
>       I wonder if OneName is one of those "industry partners"?  I guess
> we will find out on Wednesday morning...
>
>       Hey wait - this story is dated Tuesday September 25, which makes
> TODAY Wednesday morning!  Nothing on the Sun website <http://sun.com/>.
> Maybe it is too early for those West coast companies...
>
>
>
>
> --
> * johann beda   <XNSName: =j-beda> <http://pobox.com/~j-beda/>   *
>
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