Hi everyone, I thought this reply email from John Williams, head of the AutoID Labs at MIT would be a good one to share with all of you.
As it happens OIDF received membership applications in the last few hours/days from NRI, Ltd. in Tokyo (>1,000 employees via Nat Sakimura), from AARP (American Assoc. of Retired People, the largest known lobby group/community in Washington, D.C.), from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a number of other individuals and small organizations. I believe this suggests strongly that we can develop a very broad community of OIDF members from perhaps far more diverse realms than we might have assumed. cheers, -bill ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John R. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 12, 2008 11:53 AM Subject: Membership To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Bill, the AutoID Labs (http://autoid.mit.edu ) work on the "Internet of Things" and cross enterprise supply chains. As you can imagine there are serious security, authentication and authorization issues. We believe that OpenID can play a role in providing a mechanism for enterprises to participate in extended supply chains. We have our own Open Source initiative (not fully deployed) at http://pervasiveID.org which will be focused on identity of physical items in the RFID space. We have two things which might interest you, namely: 1) Use Cases for Supply Chains including the US Pharma supply chain, 2) a simulator that can model supply chains with as many as 1 million Facilities (Warehouses, Distributors, Retailers etc) and around 1 billion messages per day. We are using this simulator to understand security and its impact on the resources needed to support supply chains. We are a pure research group and I work presently with Microsoft and SAP. We would be interested in contributing to your exciting effort. Best wishes, -john- John R. Williams Director MIT Auto-ID Lab Professor of Information Engineering Cell 857-998-0033 Office 617-253-7201
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