Drummond Reed is Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seattle-based Cordance Corporation. He currently serves as co-chair of the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees. A co-founder of XNSORG in 2000, he is currently secretary of XDI.ORG (www.xdi.org). He also serves as a trustee of Identity Commons (www.idcommons.net), and a board member of the International Security, Trust, and Privacy Alliance (www.istpa.org). He has been working on technology and open standards for XML-based persistent identity and trusted data sharing since the mid-1990s.