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NSTIC Launched April 15, 2011

The US Chamber of Commerce has recently posted a link to the livecast link for Friday's launch of NSTIC. Titled "Release of White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)", the stream will be accessible at: http://www.uschamber.com/webcasts/release-white-houses-national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace-nstic

NSTIC.US hosed a press event on April 18th at 1:00PM EDT (10:00AM PDT)

The sponsors of the NSTIC.US website arranged a press teleconference panel with both technical experts from the user-centric identity community as well as advocates from the privacy and public policy arena listed below.

* Moderator: Mary Ruddy - Chief Steward, Identity Commons * Panel: o Identity Commons - Kaliya Hamlin, Jay Unger o eCitizen Foundation - Dan Combs, Dazza Greenwood o Liberty Coalition - Aaron Titus o Center for Democracy and Technology - Aaron Brauer Riecke o Kantara Initiative - Matthew Gardiner o OpenID Foundation / OIX - Don Thibeau

The purpose of this teleconference panel was to provide the press a well balanced view of Friday's government announcement of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, to answer general and specific questions about the known details of the strategy and to give future perspective on the progam. T

Next Community call, TBD after press briefing

Community Call Notes
 * Feb 16 Meeting at Id Collaboration Day at RSA
 * Jan 12 Call
 * Jan 10 Call

PRESS INFORMATION

 * Press
 * Simple NSTIC Message

Links to Coverage of the January 7 Announcement

 * A video of the NSTIC event at Stanford on January 7, 2010 is now available at http://www.techamerica.org/nstic
 * NIST's NSTIC link

Press Coverage

 * Favorable coverage
 * http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/01/obama-strategy-for-online-id/comment-page-1/
 * http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Trusted-Identity-Plans-Require-Proper-Balance-in-Private-Public-Partnerships-179605/
 * http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/216143/white_house_officials_push_online_trusted_ids.html
 * http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375454,00.asp
 * http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-01-07/internet-identity-system-said-readied-by-obama-administration.html
 * Neutral / detailed event coverage
 * http://eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212003/White-House-ramps-up-secure-ID-program
 * http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/us-eyes-internet-user-id-system/article1864855/
 * Detailed analysis
 * http://www.smartcardalliance.org/pages/newsletter-201012-feature?issue=201012
 * http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/99302/20110110/online-id-could-make-us-less-safe.htm
 * Fearful "national ID is coming"
 * http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345576/Obama-considers-Internet-ID-Americans-bid-boost-web-security.html
 * http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html
 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-stanley/dont-put-your-trust-in-tr_b_806096.html
 * Skeptics "nice but they can't do it"
 * http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security/privacy/229000437/index.html
 * Gibbs, in Ventura, Calif., is totally unconvinced that the feds can do security. Your beliefs to backspin@gibbs.com.
 * Concentrating on office over technology
 * http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/136867--locke-announces-new-office-to-secure-online-transactions

Blog Coverage

 * http://www.digitalidnews.com/2011/01/05/evolution-of-the-identity-credential
 * http://www.fastcompany.com/1715659/national-identity-cyberspace-why-we-shouldnt-freak-out-about-nstic (by Kaliya)
 * http://www.cdt.org/blogs/jim-dempsey/new-urban-myth-internet-id-scare
 * http://www.nstic.org/
 * http://nstic.us