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PKI Forum News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For additional information on the
PKI Forum:
Lisa Pretty, PKI Forum Executive Director
+1 805.467.2279
PKI Forum Holds Inaugural Members Meeting
Rapid Membership Growth Reported
MENLO PARK, Calif., Mar. 15, 2000
'- The PKI Forum, an industry-led collaboration
created to accelerate the adoption of Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology
and PKI-based solutions as the trusted foundation for secure e-business applications,
today announced the outcomes of its inaugural Members Meeting, held last week
in Foster City, California. Key outcomes included: Membership Growth; "Customer-Driven"
panel presentations; Election of Board; Two Working Groups; List of Future Activities.
Membership Growth
Since its formation by founding members Baltimore Technologies,
Entrust Technologies Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and RSA Security Inc. in
December 1999, membership in the PKI Forum has rapidly grown to over 50 leading
organizations worldwide. The speed at which the PKI Forum has reached critical
mass confirms its role as the industry's center of gravity on issues of PKI interoperability,
and underscores the industry commitment to collaborate to enable organizations
worldwide to understand and exploit the value of PKI in their e-business applications.
Principal Members: Chrysalis-ITS;
JAWS Technologies; SynData Technologies; VeriSign Inc.; and Xcert International.
Associate Members: Aladdin
Technologies; Arthur Andersen; CardBase Technologies; Celo Communications Ltd.;
Certicom Corp.; CertifiedTime.com; Cisco; Compaq; Cylink; Digital Medical Systems;
Digital Signature Trust Co.; Diversinet Corp.; Entegrity Solutions; Equifax Secure,
Inc.; Fannie Mae; First Access, Inc.; Fujitsu Limited; FundSERV; Gemplus Corporation;
Hewlett-Packard; Hitachi; I.D. Certify, Inc.; Intelispan; NETLEXIS Ltd.; Nortel
Networks; Oracle; Racal Guardata; Rainbow Technologies, Inc.; Royal Mail, Viacode;
Schlumberger; SECUDE GmbH; Siemens AG; SPYRUS; SSE Ltd.; and Who? Vision.
Auditing Members: Allen &
Overy; Dreifus Associates Limited; Litronic Inc.; Logica Ltd.; PricewaterhouseCoopers;
PrivacyX.com Solutions Inc.; and ValiCert.
Membership in the PKI Forum is open to all product and service
providers, independent software vendors, consultants, integrators and end-user
organizations that have a demonstrated interest in promoting PKI technology and
PKI-based solutions.
Inaugural Meeting
The inaugural Members Meeting of the PKI Forum, consistent
with its "industry-led, customer-driven" philosophy, began with a series
of panel presentations on existing PKI initiatives from thought leaders in Government,
Telecommunications, Healthcare and Financial Services. Following the formal election
of the PKI Forum Executive Board and (see "PKI Forum Announces Executive
Board", also released today), members dedicated the remainder of the meeting
to more fully defining their collaborative activities in two standing working
groups:
- The Technical Working Group will develop PKI interoperability profiles to
address the use of PKI in e-business applications, link with appropriate standards
bodies and other industry organizations, and charter demonstration projects to
establish interoperability among vendor products. Mark Davis, of IBM, and Andrew
Nash of RSA were elected to co-chair the Technical Working Group.
- The Business Working Group will work to understand the requirements of end-user
organizations, software developers, service providers and vendors, and to link
those requirements to the activities of Technical Working Group. It will also
invest in marketing activities for the PKI Forum, initially focused on market
education and awareness for PKI technologies and PKI-based solutions. Juan Rodriguez
Torrent, of SynData Technologies and Ray Wagner, of Digital Medical Systems were
elected to co-chair the Business Working Group.
For detailed meeting information, or for general information
about the PKI Forum, see the PKI Forum Web site at www.oasis-pki.org.
Future Activities
After the successful close of its first Member Meeting, the
PKI Forum announced that it will be participating in a number of industry activities
over the next several months:
- April 13, 2000 '- The PKI Forum will host a
90-minute informational meeting at the RSA Conference in Munich, Germany. For
event details, see www.rsa.com/conference/rsa2000/europe/.
- May 2-4, 2000 '- The PKI Forum will staff an
informational exhibit at the Entrust SecureSummit 2000 meeting in Dallas, Texas.
For event details, see www.securesummit.com.
- June 2000 '- The second quarter PKI Forum Members
Meeting will be held(details to be posted at www.oasis-pki.org
by March 31,2000)].
- September 18-20, 2000 '- The PKI Forum will
staff an informational exhibit at the Baltimore Global e-Security 2000 conference
in Orlando, Florida. For event details, see e-security2000.baltimore.com.
- September 2000 '- The third quarter PKI Forum
Members Meeting will be held (details to be posted at www.oasis-pki.org by March 31,2000).
About the PKI Forum
The PKI Forum is an international, not-for-profit, multi-vendor
and end-user alliance whose purpose is to accelerate the adoption and use of Public-Key
Infrastructure (PKI) and PKI-based products and services. The PKI Forum advocates
industry cooperation and market awareness to enable organizations to understand
and exploit the value of PKI in their e-business applications. For more information
about the PKI Forum, see the PKI Forum Web site at www.oasis-pki.org.
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