I had the opportunity to share about identity twice this week. We had an 2 hour + session at the OpenCMS Summit and then at MooseCamp. There is a lot going on in the community and a bunch of resources. Folks who have not heard about this space before they feel a bit fire hosed by it all.
Here are the links.
Who is Kaliya?
I got into all this tech stuff to server my community and still work on that at Integrative Activism http://www.integrativeactivism.net
I learned about technology at Planetwork and today serve as the Network Director there http://www.planetwork.net
I started working in identity as the evangelist for Identity Commons http://www.identitycommons.net about a year ago I became Identity Woman https://identitywoman.net
Identity
Wikipedia entry on Digital Identity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Identity
Identity Gang home of the Identity Lexicon http://www.identitygang.org/
(join the list..contribute to the wiki)
Internet Identity Workshop http://www.socialtext.net/iiw2005
(come to the next one in early May)
Microsoft InfoCards…
What are they?…http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2004/11/07/253526.aspx
Screenshot:
Kim’s the high integrity guy from Microsoft helping this whole space forward. http://www.identityblog.com
(I forgot to mention it but the laws of identity are there)
Identity and the enterprise
Liberty Alliance http://www.projectliberty.org/
SAML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML
Stand alone URL based Identifiers (sxip 2.0 forth coming soon)
SXIP http://www.sxip.com
Cooperating on YADIS
http://www.yadis.org
1) Open ID invented by Live Journal Founder Brad Fitzpatrick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid
http://openid.net/
2) Lightweight Identity
http://lid.netmesh.org/wiki/Main_Page
3) XRI / I-names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name
Sharing Information:
XRI Data Interchange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDI
Here is a link to the PDF of my slides for those of you who asked. http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/OpenStandards.pdf
Eve Maler – XMLGrrl has a great post about the panel she and I were on Thursday – The long Identity Tail.
Brad Fitzpatrick
Marc on the Open Web
Marc Canter’s AlwaysOn article finally is out. Breaking the Web Wide Open!
For decades, “walled gardens” of proprietary standards and content have been the strategy of dominant players in mainframe computer software, wireless telecommunications services, and the World Wide Web—it was their successful lock-in strategy of keeping their customers theirs. But like it or not, those walls are tumbling down. Open web standards are being adopted so widely, with such value and impact, that the web giants—Amazon, AOL, eBay, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo—are facing the difficult decision of opening up to what they don’t control.
Identity is the first topic covered and he does a great job summarizing:
Right now, you don’t really control your own online identity. At the core of just about every online piece of software is a membership system. Some systems allow you to browse a site anonymously—but unless you register with the site you can’t do things like search for an article, post a comment, buy something, or review it. The problem is that each and every site has its own membership system. So you constantly have to register with new systems, which cannot share data—even you’d want them to. By establishing a “single sign-on” standard, disparate sites can allow users to freely move from site to site, and let them control the movement of their personal profile data, as well as any other data they’ve created.
Identity 2.0 is all about users controlling their own profile data and becoming their own agents. This way the users themselves, rather than other intermediaries, will profit from their ID info. Once developers start offering single sign-on to their users, and users have trusted places to store their data—which respect the limits and provide access controls over that data, users will be able to access personalized services which will understand and use their personal data.
The Initiatives:
Right now, Identity 2.0 is under construction through various efforts from Microsoft (the “InfoCard” component built into the Vista operating system and its “Identity Metasystem”), Sxip Identity, Identity Commons, Liberty Alliance, LID (NetMesh’s Lightweight ID), and SixApart’s OpenID.

More Movers and Shakers:
Identity Commons and Kaliya Hamlin, Sxip Identity and Dick Hardt, the Identity Gang and Doc Searls, Microsoft’s Kim Cameron, Craig Burton, Phil Windley, and Brad Fitzpatrick, to name a few.
July Planetwork FOCUS on DIGITAL IDENTITY TOOLS
July Planetwork FOCUS on DIGITAL IDENTITY TOOLS
Thursady, July 28th doors at 6, program at 7
CIIS, Namaste Hall,3rd Floor
1453 Mission St. San Francisco (2 blocks from Civic Center BART)
With my emerging persona as Identity Woman curated this line up that provides a great opportunity to learn more about some of the latest tools for next generation digital identity.
Light Weight Identity – LID
Johannes Ernst NetMesh Inc. .
Light-Weight Identity(tm)– LID(tm)– a new and very simple digital identity protocol that puts users in control of their own digital identities, without reliance on a centralized party and without approval from an “identity provider”.
OpenID
Brad Fitzpatrick Six Apart, Ltd.
OpenID, a decentralized identity system, but one that’s actually decentralized and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business. An OpenID identity is just a URL.
Sun Single Sign On
Pat Patterson Sun Microsystems
Sun is announcing the intention to open source web single sign-on. This project, called Open Web Single Sign-On, or OpenSSO, gives developers access to the source code to these basic identity services allows them to focus on innovations that solve more urgent problems, such as securely connecting partner networks, ensuring user privacy, and proving compliance.
Opinity, Inc
Ted Cho
Opinity provides open reputation for end users. It is a young start up offering free online reputation management related services so that individuals can authenticate, aggregate, and mobilize their website (eBay, Amazon, etc.) reputations. Opinity also offers reputation management tools so that individuals can monitor, build, and work to enhance their own reputation going forward. Individuals can also review other individuals at the Opinity website.
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