Welcome an Information Card Foundation

The leading Internet companies such as Equifax, Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, and PayPal, as well as 9 other leaders in the technology community have announced yesterday about the creation of the Information Card Foundation (ICF). It is intended to increase the awareness of the use of electronic ID cards on the Internet, and also to encourage the interoperability in business around new standards.

The main concept of the present innovation is that users, who have a wallet with a great variety of information cards, will not be obliged to enter their user names and passwords. The informational card is an equivalent of physical ID card but on the Internet. So, instead of typing your personal data you may just show your info card.

Though this technology is not new and it has been used with many companies, the statistics shows that there are still a great number of people who do not use it and there are “still too many user names, too many passwords," as Mr. Kim Cameron, an architect of Identity and Access at Microsoft, said.

According to the official statements approximately 50 companies have taken part in discussions at the RSA 2008 conference, held in February. Also it is expected that more discussions will take place at various conferences on security systems until the end of this year. The main aim is to join more companies around this idea.