Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Internet Society (ISOC) has joined the management board of the Liberty Alliance, a global organisation formed in 2001 to establish open standards, guidelines and best practices for federated identity management.
According to the Alliance, as a board member, ISOC will have a leadership role in its collaboration activities which include working with other standards bodies, industry groups and identity-related organisations to help foster interoperability and harmonisation of Internet-based initiatives, specifications and protocols.
According to ISOC's director of trust and identity initiatives, Lucy Lynch, "promoting and developing the technical foundations of online identity and trust that will be crucial in supporting interoperable, secure and privacy-preserving applications and services on the Internet.
ISOC is eager to participate in Liberty Alliance's well-established collaborative processes to help ensure that the specifications upon which these new technologies are built will promote continued innovation and serve the interests of all Internet users around the world."
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