Abbie Barbir, Ph.D.

Abbie Barbir, Ph.D., serves on the OASIS Board of Directors; his term extends until July 2013. He was recognized as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor in 2009. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section. He has been instrumental in the formation of several OASIS Technical Committees including SOA for Telecom, Identity Metasystem Interoperability (IMI), and Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS). In 2005, he represented OASIS to ITU-T and was instrumental in having the ITU-T consent the SAML and XACML OASIS Standards as ITU-T Recommendations. Abbie holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, USA.