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Subject: Recap from RSA Conference
Here's a belated report on PKI TC activities at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, February 23-27. Just my perspective, but it may be interesting. Thanks, Steve * PKI Action Plan Rollout We rolled out (announced) the PKI Action Plan to considerable praise. The Action Plan currently lists 8 organizational supporters and 24 individual supporters including many industry luminaries such as Whit Diffie, Stephen Kent, and Russ Housley. OASIS issued a press release announcing the PKI Action Plan that was distributed to many members of the press. Sun Microsystems also mentioned the PKI Action Plan in a press release that week. The OASIS press release included quotes from John Sabo and Steve Hanna and statements of support from Entrust, FundSERV, and Sun Microsystems. We got a lot of press coverage. I have included some links to articles at the end of this message. I hear that ComputerWorld will probably have an in-depth article on the PKI Action Plan coming out soon. We handed out more than 100 copies of the PKI Action Plan, mostly at the OASIS booth. We could have handed out more. We ran out on the last day. Scott McGrath of OASIS reported that a lot of people were interested and supportive (although some were a bit bruised from earlier PKI deployment experiences). Thanks to the talented efforts of June Leung and Dee Schur, our reception was great! More than 30 people came to the reception and many hung around until the very end, sitting and chatting until the servers kicked us out. I have a list of contacts from that event. We will follow up with an informational email about the PKI Action Plan and invite them to get more involved by agreeing to be listed as a supporter of the plan or joining the PKI TC and helping us to implement the plan. I walked through the exhibition on the last day, stopping at the booths of PKI-related companies, talking to them about the PKI Action Plan, and recruiting them to help. I still have some followup to do on the contacts I made, but I'm confident that we'll get several more PKI TC members from this event. Several people told me that they planned to go right home and get started on joining. And, in fact, new PKI TC members have been pouring in since the RSA Conference. Also, we have received several more endorsements for the PKI Action Plan and I hear that several more are on the way. * PKI TC F2F The PKI TC had a face-to-face meeting on Tuesday, February 24. Ten PKI TC members came to this lunch meeting at Sun's offices in San Francisco. We had a conference call line open but nobody joined there. The meeting was quite informal and we agreed not to take notes or have the meeting count toward attendance requirements. We went around the table and talked about our backgrounds. Then we passed out badges for the reception and discussed that. A good time was had by all. ------------- Press coverage of PKI Action Plan rollout developer.net.au gave us some press: http://developer.net.au/news/general+news/oasis+champions+pki+adoption.asp And ebizQ: http://www.ebizq.net/news/3830.html Also, <?xmlhack?>: http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php?item=2166 which is picked up by several pages: http://axkit.org and http://www.trishore.ca/newsXML.php http://www.lixusnet.com/index.jsp And EUROPA, the European Union's web portal: http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&documentID=2190&parent=chapter&preChapterID=0-140-194 And one of Sun's press releases from the conference: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-02/sunflash.20040224.2.html >From that Sun press release, we got a few more mentions: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3317101 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3317101 And of course the Sun Labs web site covered us: http://research.sun.com/features/rsa2004/
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