What is the Information Card Foundation (ICF)?
A. The Information Card Foundation is a new organization to promote and facilitate information cards across the internet. Information cards are how users control their identity information in context as they interact with commercial and social internet entities. ICF promotes and facilitates development and deployment of the necessary infrastructure connecting users with identity providers and relying parties. Information cards can enable an open, trusted, interoperable, identity layer for the internet that maximizes control over personal information by individuals. ICF is also about developing an extensible interoperable software layer that: • leverages existing open standards • can specify what is necessary to give users more convenience, privacy, and control over their identity information • can build trusted connections to electronic commerce systems. It will make all existing identity applications and systems more valuable.
