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Identity Standards and Protocols

• Liberty Alliance
• WS-Federation
• OASIS: Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
• OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
• OASIS Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
• OASIS Directory Services Markup Language 2.0 (DSML)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

Legislation and Standards

General Legislation

• SOX (Sarbanes Oxley)
• CFAA (Computer Fraud & Abuse Act)
• ISO 17799/ANZ 4444
• Australian Federal Privacy Act 1988

Industry Related Legislation & Resources

Government

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner: Proof of ID Required? Getting Identity Management Right
• Australian Government Information Management Office: Identity Management for Australian Government Employees (IMAGE) Framework
• eAuthentication

Higher Education

• Shibboleth Project
• Australia’s Academic and Research Network (aarnet) - University Identity and Access Management Survey 2005 - Results
• Educause Identity Management Working Group

Financial Services

• GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act)
• Australia Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)

HealthCare

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 (HIPPA)

Newsletters & Blogs

Newsletters

• Network World Newsletter: Dave Kearns on Identity Management.
• Digital ID World Newsletter

Blogs

• Kim Cameron’s Identity Webblog
• Dave Kearns Virtual Quill

Identity Related Open Source and Open Standards Projects

• SourceID: Open Source Federated Identity Management
• OpenSPML: OASIS initiative for the open source client code that supports the Service
• MONO: Open Source implementation of the .NET Development Framework
• DotGNU: Virtual Identity Project.