OAuth wins award at European Identity Conference

Last week, on behalf of the OAuth community, Eve Maler accepted an award for Best new or improved standard at the European Identity Conference 2009 (EIC), in Munich:

The European Identity Award for the category “Best new or improved standard” went to the Aristotle Project for ArisID, an important enhancement of IGF (Identity Governance Frameworks) and CARML, which enhances user-friendliness of these important standards for IAM and GRC. This particular innovation had been promoted and supported by Oracle. The standardization initiative OAuth (Open Authentication) receives an award for their streamlined approach for authentication standardization, which finds a lot of market interest. The last award in this category goes to the Information Card Foundation (ICF) for standardizing the important approach of Information Cards for future identity management.

As Eve happened to be at the conference, she received authorization on behalf of community to accept the award. We haven’t quite figured out what we’ll do with it (being that we’re a virtual, placeless entity!) but we appreciate being recognized all the same!