What are the benefits of ICF to Member companies?
A. Benefits include: • Create the demand for products that depend on an information card or open identity network layer. • Ensure interoperability between information card solutions, products, and services. • Influence the marketing messages and delivery vehicles • Accelerate proliferation of information cards which in turn grows the market opportunities. • Get early access to specifications under development or being integrated with specific industry activities. • Strategic advantage for identity–related products and initiatives leveraging information cards • Lower development costs for a companies’ own value-add products based on a common infrastructure. • Show value to its customers by being the visible leader with user-centric identity features. • Be associated with the ideals of the principles of identity. • Leverage reference implementations for Member company’s code development. • Use any open source developed code for its own purposes. • Work with the community on open source c
