Liberty meeting in Hong Kong

The Liberty Alliance is having a plenary meeting in Hong Kong. The Fidelity project was presented in the form of a general presentation during the opening plenary and demonstrations during the networking reception. Antoine de Poorter from Ericsson gave the general presentation, where the main emphasis were the findings from the Fidelity project in terms of Liberty specs and Liberty products.

The demonstrations comprised of three demo stations; one showing the authentication methods implemented in the project (presented by my colleague Jarkko Kaura), the other demonstrating our Inter-CoT (between TeliaSonera and France Telecom) use case called Book a Hotel and also the Nearest Restaurants use case (presented by me), and the third showing the Spanish services developed by Ericsson for the Amena's CoT (presented by Antoine).

Both the general presentation and the demonstrations were received well, and some further actions for cooperation between the Fidelity and Liberty were planned.

Analogy between Fidelity CoCoT and Star Alliance?

Star Alliance
Originally uploaded by laukkanen_mikko.

In Fidelity we have multiple interconnected CoTs, thus, we can call them Circle of Circle of Trust (CoCoT). The question is, how should this concept be familiarized to the end-users? Maybe we could use the airline alliances as examples? We could advertise the CoCoT by naming it "Fidelity Alliance", and once you join any of the alliance members, you are offered the choice to join the Fidelity Alliance also? And then when service providers are part of the Fidelity Alliance, they would follow the scheme of the airline companies; "TeliaSonera, a member of the Fidelity Alliance"?

On the way to Fidelity project meeting

The second last management meeting of the Fidelity project is about to begin in the Telenor premises in Oslo. The only bad thing is that I'm (together with my colleagues) are still sitting in the cafeteria of the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Our early morning flight was cancelled, due to some technical problems in Blue1 plane, so we have been rebooked to the next available Oslo flight, which will take off at 11:40. So we will miss the morning sessions, but what can you do... thanks a lot Blue1. And for the four hour waiting we were rewarded with huge 10 euro voucher for getting something to eat. Wow!