I have to wonder, though, at their description of Liberty as being "backed by leading financial services firms and major IT suppliers". I mean, it's true as far as it goes... but what about the members whose principal business is neither financial services nor IT - such as AOL, France Telecom, General Motors, NTT, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and Vodafone?
Then there are the non-commercial members, like the Fraunhofer Institute, Purdue University, Sunderland City Council, Washington University School of Law and the US Department of Defense. These are just some of the ones I have worked with directly in the course of my Liberty participation, but there are many more, including, for example, the New Zealand State Service Commission - whose representative, Colin Wallis, chairs the new e-Government Special Interest Group (SIG).
All this may seem a bit nit-picky, and I'm not looking the ComputerWeekly gift horse in the proverbial mouth, but I do think it's an important quality of the Liberty Alliance that it brings together an extremely diverse set of stakeholders. Identity is, bluntly, too important a part of our online activity to be left exclusively to the vendor community. Conscientious as we are, it's vital that our views be tempered and informed by the lawyers, the public servants, the academics, as well as the banks, manufacturers and service sector companies - and that's why it's good that Liberty provides just such a forum.
Posted by racingsnake
@ 12:48 PM GMT+00:00
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