2008 Q1 Report VRM

Project VRM has been busy, busy, busy since the last report.

The London Chapter, incorporating most of our European effort, has been holding monthly meetings. These meetings are span the internal (as code ais written and projects moved forward) and external, introduciung and clarifying VRM to interesed parties, businesses, entities and individuals. The London group has been a bundle of energy and remains focused on the tasks at hand: to expand and educate and develop VRM.

Stateside the subcommittees formed in the VRM Moutainview meeting have been hard at work, as well.

The Vision Committee ("Define/Advocate Clear Vision for VRM Worldwide")has been gathering data and putting together statements and some papers. In addition, a special Wiki Page for development and definition has been a result. This is still in somewhatof an alpha state, but we expect to anounce this to the public at large in the next quarter.

The Standards Committee has been hard at work on establishing the framework and definitions which will allow interoperability. As many in the Identity world know, establishing standards and the work involved in definition and specifics is no mean feat. Significant progress has been made in this area.

The Project VRM initial test case, Change of Address, has been given the name Public Address Management (PAM). Change of address is universal, occurs throughout and across all demographic, economic and geographic boundaries, and occurs with frequency as do few other events. Further, change of address has impact on commerical and non commercial interests, which sheds light and value on the "non-CRM" aspect of VRM.