NEW YORK, May 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Identity Experts to Evaluate Established and Emerging
Enterprise, Web 2.0 and Multi-Protocol IDDY Award Nominations

Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more
trust-worthy internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide,
today announced the judging panel for the 2008 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of
the Year) Awards. This year judges will be evaluating nominations in three
categories: a Liberty-based deployment, a Liberty-based emerging application
and a new multi-protocol application category. The call for nominations for
the 2008 IDDY Awards ends on Monday, June 16, with winners announced on June
30. IDDYs will be presented at CSO Magazine's Digital ID World 2008
conference (September 8-10) in Anaheim, CA.

The 2008 IDDY Award Judges are Bob Bragdon, Publisher, CSO Magazine;
Michael Barrett, CISO, PayPal, Inc.; Michelle Dennedy, CPO, Sun Microsystems;
John Fontana, Senior Editor, Network World; Gerry Gebel, VP & Service
Director, Identity and Privacy Strategies, Burton Group; Paul Madsen, Liberty
Alliance Technology Expert Group and Identity Standards Researcher, NTT;
Roger Sullivan, president of Liberty Alliance and vice president Oracle
Identity Management; and Robin Wilton, Liberty Alliance Public Policy Expert
Group and Corporate Architect, Sun Microsystems, UK. A photo of the IDDY,
along with nomination forms, criteria and more information about the 2008
program is available at http://tinyurl.com/6dekb8

According to Brett McDowell, executive director, Liberty Alliance, "With
three nomination categories, the 2008 IDDY Awards promises to showcase some
of the best digital identity management solutions in the global marketplace
today, recognizing established and emerging enterprise solutions as well as
the exciting applications developed to serve communities and users."

About the Liberty Alliance IDDY Awards

Now in its third year, The IDDY Award recognizes outstanding
identity-dependent enterprise and user-driven applications built using the
secure, privacy-respecting and proven interoperable Liberty Federation (SAML
2.0), Liberty Web Services (ID-WSF), Liberty People Service and Liberty
Advanced Client specifications. Previous winners of the IDDY award include
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
    +1-954-530-2850- Office
    +1-908-251-1549 - Mobile
    russ@projectliberty.org
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