SAN FRANCISCO (July 15, 2002) - Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH), a global leader in Internet communications, and the Liberty Alliance Project, a group committed to developing open, interoperable specifications for network identity, today announced that Critical Path has joined the group as an Associate member. Critical Path is a key provider of messaging and identity management solutions to leading global enterprises, carriers and service providers. The company's technology provides a crucial foundation for advanced automated provisioning and security applications. The Liberty Alliance Project is committed to enabling a networked world in which individuals and businesses can more easily conduct transactions while protecting the privacy and security of vital identity information. To accomplish its vision, the Liberty Alliance Project will establish an open standard for federated network identity through open technical specifications that will support a broad range of identity-based products and services. This will enable commercial and non-commercial organizations to realize new revenue and costs saving opportunities that economically leverage their relationships with customers, business partners, and employees. "The Liberty Alliance Project is playing a vital role in shaping the standards that will allow business relationships, consumer transactions, and, ultimately, Web services, to be conducted securely and reliably over the Internet," said Michael Serbinis, chief technology officer at Critical Path. "Critical Path is committed to driving the adoption of these standards, which will enable the development of a core set of identity management and Web services built upon our directory and meta-directory technology." As an Associate member, Critical Path will attend participant meetings and play an important role in shaping the draft specifications and proposals of the Liberty Alliance Project. Critical Path will also leverage its expertise in the directory and meta-directory markets to provide insight into both the development and deployment of advanced automated provisioning and security applications.
About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) is an alliance of more than 60 technology and consumer organizations formed to develop and deploy open, federated network identification specifications that support all current and emerging network devices in the digital economy. Federated identity will help drive the next generation of the Internet, offering businesses and consumers convenience and choice. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations. Founding members of the Alliance are: American Express, AOL Time Warner, Bell Canada, Citigroup, France Telecom, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard Company, MasterCard International, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RSA Security, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines and Vodafone.
About Critical Path, Inc.
Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPTH) delivers software and services that maximize the value of Internet communications. The company provides messaging and collaboration solutions -- from wireless, secure and unified messaging to basic email and personal information management -- as well as identity management solutions that simplify user profile management and strengthen information security. The standards-based Critical Path Communications Platform, built to perform reliably at the scale of public networks, delivers the industry's lowest total cost of ownership for messaging solutions and lays a solid foundation for next-generation communications services. Critical Path's customers include more than 700 enterprises, 190 carriers and service providers, eight national postal authorities and 35 government agencies. Critical Path is headquartered in San Francisco with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. More information on Critical Path can be found at www.cp.net. # # # Note to Editors: Critical Path and the Critical Path logo are the trademarks of Critical Path, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their holders
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