Cordance
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| Industry: | Dataweb |
| Headquarters: | Seattle, USA |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | http://www.cordance.net |
| Key People | |
| Vince Caluori, President and CEO Drummond Reed, CTO | |
Cordance Corporation is a Seattle based company which functions by creating, applying, and managing technologies for the Dataweb. The company follows a modern approach towards the maintenance of persistent and privacy protected identities as well as trusted data sharing peers over the large-scale online networks. The company contributed contributes Dataweb’s intellectual technology to the international non-profit organization XDI.ORG [1] to devote public services and open standards for the Dataweb.
History
Cordance had created the actual digital addressing technology system which later went to become the base for the XDI (XRI Data Interchange) and XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier), the two open standards now installed at OASIS. The patents were contributed in order to create the XDI.org. In the year 2004, the company entered into a partnership with the essential clearinghouse service providing IT and global communications company – NeuStar. This was done with the sole purpose of developing and operating the global registry of XRI and resolution services as per the contract signed with XDI.org. Later, Cordance partnered with AmSoft for the development of open standard identity services based on the XRI platform which included contact pages, universal login and address forwarding. Today, the company is actively working with international i-brokers i.e. identity service providers to undergo the accreditation provided by XDI.org and for the development and deployment of XRI digital addressing based i-services i.e. identity services. Cordance is also an active Domain Roundtable participant [2].
Services
Presently, the company is co-chairing the Identifier Technical Committees - Extensible Resource Identifier and XRI Data Interchange and Extensible Resource at OASIS. Global registry services are offered by the company to the XRIs which have been contracted under XDI.ORG. The company is a developer and digital addressing technology service provider. The Digital addresses which are better known as "i-numbers" and "i-names" are important for a new level of private and safe data sharing services and trusted identity [3].