Liberty Alliance Announces Call for Nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards

NEW YORK, May 9 /PRNewswire/ --

- Third Annual Event Features Deployment, Emerging and Multi-Protocol
Application Categories

Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more
trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide,
today announced a call for nominations for the 2008 IDDY Awards. The IDDY
Award (IDentity Deployment of the Year) recognizes identity-based
applications built using Liberty Federation (SAML 2.0), Liberty Web Services,
Liberty People Service and Liberty Advanced Client specifications. The call
for nominations ends on Monday, June 16, with winners announced on June 30.
IDDY Awards will be presented at CSO magazine's Digital ID World 2008
conference (September 8-10) in Anaheim, CA.

This year's IDDY Awards program includes a call for nominations in three
categories, a Liberty-based deployment, a Liberty-based emerging application
and a new multi-protocol category. The new award is designed to shine a
spotlight on applications that leverage the proven interoperability of
Liberty Alliance standards in multi-protocol implementations to help advance
the next generation of secure and privacy-respecting Liberty-based enterprise
and user-driven Web 2.0 applications. Nomination forms, criteria and more
information about the 2008 IDDY Awards is available at
http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/news_events/iddy_awards

"With three nomination categories, the 2008 IDDY Awards mirror the
evolving identity landscape, recognizing established and up-and-coming
enterprise solutions as well as the exciting applications developed to serve
communities and users," said Brett McDowell, executive director, Liberty
Alliance. "From proven interoperable enterprise deployments to more secure
and privacy-respecting user-driven Web 2.0 applications, the 2008 IDDY Awards
promises to showcase some of the best digital identity management solutions
in the global marketplace today."

About the Liberty Alliance IDDY Awards

Now in its third year, the Liberty Alliance IDDY Award recognizes the
individuals and organizations responsible for building and deploying
outstanding identity-dependent applications. Previous winners of the IDDY
award were Deutsche Telekom AG (TCom, Business Unit T-Online), eBIZ.mobility,
EduTech, (New York State educational agencies); NTT Labs, Rearden Commerce,
the UK Government Authentication Gateway and the New Zealand Government. An
overview of winning applications and more information about the IDDY is
available at http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/news_events/iddy_awards

CONTACT:
     Russ DeVeau
     Liberty Alliance
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     russ@projectliberty.org
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