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TYPE: [PROTOCOL] digitalme
DESCRIPTION: Based on Novell Directory Services (NDS), digitalme allows customers to conduct business on the Internet by using an electronic "wallet" which stores personal information. The information stored in the wallet can be automatically used to fill out Web forms that ask for personal information.
PARTICIPANTS: Dave Kearns
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TYPE: [FEDERAL LEGISLATION] Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB)
DESCRIPTION: President Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("Act") into law November 12, 1999. The Act repeals the 66-year old Glass-Steagall Act, which prohibited banks, securities firms and insurance companies from affiliating. Permits financial institutions to share "nonpublic personal information with affilated companies. Because of the scale of financial institutions this permits a great deal of information sharing.
PARTICIPANTS: Phil Gramm, Jim Leach, Thomas J. Bliley, jr.
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [COMPANY] Microsoft
DESCRIPTION: Passport announced (Becomes reality in 2001)
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TYPE: [COMPANY] PADL Software PTY LTD
DESCRIPTION: PADL provides directory service integration software based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. PADL's products are used by almost a million people worldwide, at universities, U.S. government agencies, financial institutions and in the aerospace industry. Their software is included with products from Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Red Hat. The RFC 2307 schema authored by PADL has been endorsed by all major Linux and UNIX vendors. PADL was founded in January, 1999, by Luke Howard. Mr Howard was responsible for designing the RFC 2307 schema, which much of PADL's software supports. Before founding PADL, he worked for Apple Computer, Inc. XAD, PADL's most recent product, is a cross-platform enterprise identity management service that runs on Linux. It is based on open standards such as OpenLDAP and does not require a proprietary server infrastructure. The two key features of XAD are that it is a unified repository of identity information and it offers single sign-on and password management across all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Unix.
PARTICIPANTS: Luke Howard
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: OpenLDAP

TYPE: [STANDARD] W3C P3P and Intermind patent claim
DESCRIPTION: 28 October 1999 -- Removing a major hurdle to the deployment of privacy-enhancing technology on the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a legal analysis finding that Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) technology does not infringe a patent held by the Intermind Corporation. P3P enables Web sites to inform users of their privacy practices and will give users more control over the use of their personal information on the Web. Widespread deployment of P3P-compliant technologies was threatened when the patent holder sought to charge royalties for products or services using the P3P specification, despite the fact that the technology was developed in an open, collaborative process by a number of W3C Members. "Given the fundamental importance of privacy protection on the Web, and our commitment to open standards, we decided that it was our responsibility to provide the community with a thorough analysis of the relationship between the patent and P3P," said Daniel J. Weitzner, Technology and Society Domain Leader at the World Wide Web Consortium, responsible for P3P development.
PARTICIPANTS: Daniel J. Weitzner
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