The call for nominations for the 2011 IDDY (IDentity Deployment of the Year) Awards is still open!

We encourage you to refer partners and organizations that could be good candidates for the award program.

Past winners are among the best and brightest in the identity marketplace, and we look forward to honoring this year's recipients at the RSA Conference, February 2011.

This fifth year of IDDY Awards will honor deployments and proofs of concept of all identity specifications anyone that utilizes any open/standard identity technology, including ID-WSF, Identity services from the Cloud, IGF, Information Cards, OATH, OAuth, OpenID, OpenSocial, OPML, PKI, RDF, RSS, SAML, WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS, XACML, XDI, XMPP extensions, XRD, XRI, etc., is encouraged to participate.

Below you will find documents that outline the judging criteria for the proof of concept (POC) and the deployment categories. The application forms are available as well.

IDDYAwards 2011 Identity Deployment Category Judging Criteria final.pdf

IDDYAwards 2011 Identity Deployment Nomination Form final.pdf

IDDYAwards 2011 POC Emerging Applications Category Criteria final.pdf

IDDYAwards 2011 POC Emerging Nomination Form final.pdf

Key dates to remember:

Applications due: January 5, 2011 by midnight PT---submit to iddy@kantarainiative.org

Award winners notified by January 17, 2011

IDDY Award presentation February 14, 2011

2009 IDDY Award winners:

IDDY Deployment award winners: Google and Plaxo, Signicat, The U.S. Department of Defense.

IDDY Proof of Concept (POC) awards: fun communications, Gemalto and Vodafone, NRI and NTT and Oracle.

Have questions? Contact – iddy@kantarainitiative.org