Electronic Authentication Partnership Elects First Board
The Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP) has announced the election of its first board of directors. The EAP promotes interoperability among public and private online authentication systems.
The obstacle to widespread online authentication isn't technology, it's a lack of accepted rules for trust," said James Lewis, the Interim Chair of the EAP and Director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). "The EAP's Trust Framework (PDF) is a major achievement by a public-private partnership that gives companies and individuals a way to determine how much they can trust a credential issued by someone else."
"In conducting the pilots," Lewis said, "the EAP will be able to count on the oversight of a talented Board that draws from a broad cross-section of the authentication industry."
The new Board of Directors, which was elected in January 2005, is composed of 16 members:
- Mr. Khaja Ahmed, Microsoft Corporation
- Ms. Catherine A. Allen, BITS
- Mr. James DeVaul, KPMG
- Mr. Glen B. Gainer III, Auditor, State of West Virginia, representing the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT)
- Ms. Jane Hennessy, Wells Fargo
- Mr. John Jackson, General Motors Corporation
- Ms. Linda Lewis-Pickett, American Association of Motor Vehicles Administration
- Ms. Judy Lin, VeriSign, Inc.
- Mr. Elliott C. McEntee, NACHA -- The Electronic Payments Association
- Mr. Gabe Minton, Mortgage Bankers Association
- Mr. Jack Radzikowski, Northrop Grumman
- Mr. Howard Schmidt, U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
- Mr. Michael D. Sessa, Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council
- Mr. Bill Smith, Sun Microsystems, representing the Liberty Alliance Project
- Mr. James Wagner, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
- Federal Advisor: Mr. David Temoshok, General Services Administration
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