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TYPE: [STATUTE?] Costarricense.com
DESCRIPTION: The first national universalization of Virtual Entity. Specific components of the Virtual Entity universalization: email + website.
PARTICIPANTS: =Jaco Aizenman L.
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [COMPANY] ICSynergy, Inc.
DESCRIPTION: ICSynergy is a  consulting and system integration company.  They partner with their clients to create  business and technology solutions.  They specialize in the development of identity, directory, portal, content management and web services solutions.  They've developed Identity solutions for  the Manufacturing, Retail, Public Sector and Telecom verticals. They're committed to developing an extensive network of experts and partners and building tool kits and products, which differentiate them in the industry.
PARTICIPANTS: Founder and CTO - Martin Gee is the founder and CTO of ICSynergy.  Martin has been a leader in evolving technology since beginning his distinguished career in 1994.  In February of 2000, Martin formed ICSynergy to specialize in the  development of e-business solutions using Java, and J2EE and has authored numerous publications..  Under Martin's leadership, ICSynergy has provided innovative business and technology solutions for world class companies in the Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, Finance and Public Sector verticals. Managing Partner / COO Mike Thompson has over 20 years of achievement and success in building and leading Telecommunications, Hi Tech and Professional Services organizations and delivering complex e-Business, IT and network solutions.  Mike has held several key executive roles in corporations such as Marconi Communications, Nortel Networks, Bell Sygma Corporation, Bell Northern Research and Bell Canada.
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [COMPANY] OctetString
DESCRIPTION: Clayton Donley founded OctetString in September 2000 as the culmination of his work with LDAP and other directory technologies. Donley had been a directory and security consultant to organizations such as Bank One, GTE, IBM, McDonald’s, Merck, Motorola, Netscape Shaw Cablesystems, Subaru of America and Blue-Cross and Blue-Shield of Illinois. Through this experience, he saw firsthand the growing challenges the proliferation of directories presented to those large organizations and the shortcomings of conventional solutions. Donley developed the first Java-based version of VDE and launched OctetString without relying on venture capital or other investment funding.
PARTICIPANTS: Clayton Donley, Phil Hunt
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: X.500, LDAP

TYPE: [COMPANY] OpenPrivacy.org
DESCRIPTION: An Open Source protocols and services providing a secure and distributed platform for creating, maintaining, and selectively sharing user profile information
PARTICIPANTS: Fen Labalme(insert others here)
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TYPE: [COMPANY] Sun Microsystems Inc. acquires Innosoft International Inc.
DESCRIPTION:
PARTICIPANTS: Mark Wahl(insert others here)
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TYPE: [WORKING GROUP] Planetwork Link Tank / Web Cabal Meetings
DESCRIPTION: Started a two year process facilitated by the Link Tank, a group of two dozen professionals in the fields of digital communications, environmental activism, independent media, and socially responsible investment, who met regularly to discuss how a "next generation" Internet could support appropriate responses to the environmental crisis. The group commissioned three of its members to prepare a white paper that demonstrates the feasibility of the ASN's vision of online community by describing a technical architecture that could achieve this vision. The paper was presented at the PlaNetwork? Conference "Networking a Sustainable Future" in June, 2003. In addition Owen Davis learned about social networks and Identity as a result of this process and founded Identity Commons (2001) and the Interra Project was founded by Greg Seteltonpol.
PARTICIPANTS: Fen Labalme(insert others here)
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TYPE: [PUBLIC TRUST ORGANIZATION]XDI.ORG
DESCRIPTION: XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG) in July, 2000
PARTICIPANTS: Fen Labalme =drummond.reed (insert others here)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: Transport SOAP over HTTP, SAML 2.0, XRI/XDI

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