Here are some of the great quotes about OpenID this week –
Tom in Austin says:
I’m a big fan of OpenID and I think it’s on the edge of greatness.
Norman Walsh:
Next time you build a web application that needs a login, consider OpenID.
btbytes:
Perhaps in future, sign-up fatigue will keep people away from signing up to new services. Providing OpenID option is very welcome.
Amblin:
You can now sign in with an OpenID when you leave comments on the blog. Why did I added this? To do my little part to try and break some of the ID silos.
Identitification
Identity Commons Wiki upgrade
The Identity Commons wiki was upgraded to moinmoin 1.5.5a and it looks beautiful. We also have our first Stewards Council meeting today. Things are looking good.
Yet Another Conference with a Digital Identity Track
We have the Forthcoming ACM conference with a special day on November 3 on Digital Identity. I just found this annoucement from the Future of Identity in the Information Society (FIDIS) about a special track at the 22nd IFIP International Information Security Conference. The overall conference theme is new approaches for security, privacy and trust in complex environments. It is May 14-16 in South Africa.
Topics may include:
* Identity management
* Profiling and customer relation management
* Global management of identities
* Advanced identity documents
* RFID and other, tracking technologies
* Biometrics
* Surveillance
* ID related crime
* IT law for preventing Misuse
* Computer Forensics
* Privacy, anonymity and pseudonymity
* Multilateral Security
* Adequacy and Inadequacy of the Law
* Social, legal and ethical aspects of IT security
Identity Cards…
For those of you not in the loop of ‘hip’ web2.o blogs I tune into them about once a week just to make sure I know what is going on in that world (TechCrunch, BoingBoing etc). I saw MooCards on TechCrunch today…you can make little business cards with Flickr photos on them …identity cards if you will. I thought they would be fun to share with you all.
Planetwork on Identity Thursday 21
This coming Thursday the 21st Johannes and I will be speaking at the Planetwork Fourm. We are at a new venue…Standford University, Building 460 room 126. Doors at 6 and presentations at 7.
Lauren Gelman will open the evening speaking about Net Neutrality and Eugene will share his work on HyperScope. Here is the link to the event home page.
I will talk about the latest happenings in user-centric Identity and Johannes will continue along that theme diving into more technical details of OpenID and the Open Source Identity Selector.
Eugene will follow up by sharing about his work on the HyperScope project.
Winning The Digital Identity World Award
So today was a big day. Digital Identity World gave me their yearly award for my work ‘behind the scenes’ work with the Identity Gang and the Internet Identity Workshop. It feels great to be seen in for over two years of hard work.
I really owe a great debt to Jim Fournier and Elizabeth Thompson for founding Planetwork and bringing together an amazing community from which I learned a lot and got me inspired to work in technology. They worked hard to bring the Link Tank together who’s output was at least partially captured i n the Augmented Social Network White Paper. If you are trying to figure out user-centric identity and what it might mean socially this is still a critical document for that.
Owen Davis deserves a lot of thank yous for his personal vision, intellectual contribution and putting up his own money to work on addressing the social issues that arise with a user-centric identity layer by forming Identity Commons. His decision to hire me gave me my first real job in this space where I learned a lot and began building a network of relationships that became at the heart of the current community.
Of course we must thank our family and my husband Brian has been supportive of my crazy travel schedule to serve and evangelize about goings on inside the community.
I really love the community and thank all of you for your support and I must particularly thank Phil Windley and Doc Searls for there partnership with me in producing the Internet Identity Workshop and Identity Open Spaces.
Come to the Workshop in December it will be a great time.
Identity in the Arab World pt2
In the San Francisco Cronicle: Paternity trial shocks Egyptians
Court rules against famous actor, siding with mother, child This situation where children are not recognized by the state when no father is present. It is quite concerning to think about the range of social norms that are different in different cultural contexts that really limit peoples freedom to be full citizens. I am sure this is not the only example.
There are an estimated 2 million unregistered children in Egypt, according to Lamya Lotfey, a specialist on paternity law at the New Women Foundation, a Cairo-based feminist organization. Since the ministry of health refuses to issue a birth certificate without the father’s presence or consent, illegitimate children don’t officially exist unless the mother undertakes a legal process that can take as long as six years so the child bears the last name of the maternal grandfather. In the meantime, the child cannot obtain a passport, enroll in school or qualify for state-sponsored vaccinations. As a result, most unmarried women choose abortion or orphanages, according to Lotfey.
A group of nongovernmental organizations is lobbying for the right of all children to have birth certificates, regardless of a recognized father.
Identity in the Arab World pt1
Two stories that I have read in the print the last two weeks about Identity issues in the Arab world that are worth surfacing.
First of all this story in Newsweek Iraq:A Deadly Name Game
By law, all Iraqis carry jinsiyas, or national ID cards. But in a country where your ethnicity can make you a target, a jinsiya can become a death warrant. If your name is Omar you’re likely a Sunni Muslim, named after a seventh-century imam despised by Shiites. If you’re Amar or Aamer, pronounced almost the same, you could be from either sect. If you’re Ali, you’re probably Shiite. As a result, many Iraqis have started carrying two jinsiyas—a real one, and a fake one linking them to the rival sect. The demand for false ID cards has spiked as bodies pile up in the Baghdad morgue at the rate of 35 to 50 a day, frequently bound and blindfolded, a jinsiya in their shirt pocket.
It seems that we often think of identity in the context of western liberal democracy this situation in Iraq makes me wonder about what it means to make ‘really secure’ documents and identifying papers for people.
Identity Open Space – Sept 11, Santa Clara
So we have had a fabulous series of open space events since May’s Internet Identity Workshop . The Identity Mashup at Berkman 3rd Day Open Space Post Liberty Alliance Identity Open Space specifically but also as major themes at Mashup Camp that had 5 sessions on identity and at OSCON and OSCamp.
I think one the reason things have been developing rapidly is because of the open opportunities to address critical issues and reflect as a community on next steps. So there is another one coming up before the next Internet Identity Workshop in December.
The Monday of Digital Identity World’s start we are hosting an Identity Open Space at the Santa Clara Convention Center. It will begin at 9am with agenda creation with sessions starting at 9:30 going until 3 when DIDW officially starts.
The cost is $25 just to cover lunch – so we can eat on site. Please sign up here… and add your name to the wiki and post suggested topics you bring to the conversation.
You also get a discount on attending Digital Identity World if you come to the Identity Open Space.
I know it is a bit of a challenge to travel on Sunday but I hope those of you from out of town will choose to do that. Hopefully we can get lost of folks working on new web tools who might be able to actually use – user-centric identity. Besides who wants to get on a plane on September 11th.
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5 Identity Sessions at MashupCamp
Johannes Earnst, David Recordon, John Clippinger, Jon Ramer and myself were all there.
Access Control for Federation.
Aggregating Profile Data
Identity, security, access control, social networking: there’s got to be (and there is) a better way than more user names and passwords
Access Controls Part 2
I-Card and Higgins (not posted on the wiki yet)
The Wireds are one again.
Some how … Wired online property was sold away from the magazine. Some how the logic of this was ridiculous to me. They would always have the text content of the magazine but none of the graphics. I am glad they are together again “one owner of one identity”.
Identity related issues at the bank…
So the day before I went away to Gnomedex I went to the bank. I took out money but foolishly forgot my bank card in the machine. I don’t realize this until about 2 hours before my flight when I am travelling to the airport. I figure – hey there might be enough time for Brian to stop by the bank pick up my card and get it to me before i take off. He goes to the bank and they won’t even talk to him about. (he and I share a joint savings account at this bank – they know he is my husband). This is really annoying. But hey ‘security’. I figured they could call me on my phone number on the account or something to verify things but Brian doesn’t even.
So while I am in the northwest I go to Washington Mutual and get cash out. I don’t really call the bank cause I figure I can go and get my card from my local branch. I also want to keep using my credit card number (on the bank card) and do so to buy tickets etc. Today I am back and go and pay them a visit. They destroy the cards after like 2 days and they don’t even keep a record of which ones they do that with. There computer system can’t tell me if I actually did leave my card in the machine (are you kidding me!). If I report my card lost they will cancel the number meaning I can’t use it again and be without ‘a credit card number’ for like 7+ days. I am leaving the country on Friday AM so I will be away for 2 weeks. 2 weeks with no credit card number. It really sucks.
A teller in Washington State said I could get an emergency card perhaps in 48 hours. The costumer service person in my bank this morning looked at me like I was from outer space when I suggested this idea. With these numbers so essential to our ability to do transactions in the world couldn’t we have a way.
The unexpected posterchild of HollyHock
This was a very interesting expereicne – I go to HollyHock’s website to see when the Leadership Workshop starts on August 18th. Then I see this –
The picture was taken buy Kris Krug (an amazing photographer and bryght guy) and fellow Web of Changer – The conference we were at last year at Holly Hock.
I am happy to be one of their poster children because I tell folks all the time to go there – it is a heavenly retreat center. Not to posh, not to rustic – just right to relax and be. The view is amazing, hot tub over looking the ocean. Some amazing teachers choose to lead workshops there. My workshop this August is with Robert Gass.
I am posting this to wonder publicly about the deeper identity issues it raises for me in the digital age of flickr, creative commons and norms of usage.
They never asked me or even told me they were using the photo. What if I didn’t want to be there poster child? Is this really a non-comercial use? (the photo is licensed CC) and if it is not should they be paying Kris and/or me. I am not complaining at all and I really don’t want anything from HollyHock at all – I love them and want to help so lending them my photo for the season seems like a great way to contribute. I wonder about this more for beyond this situation.
Identity on Rails
Last weekend there as the first official Ruby on Rails Conference in Chicago. OpenID, Rails and Identity 2.0: Building and Cultivating an Identity Ecosystem. was presented by Matt Pelletier owner of EastMedia a Ruby development shop in NYC that has done a lot of the coding for the Verisign PIP And Kiran Dandekar is a colleague of David Recordon at Verisign and presented at a different time as well….
Here are some of the best summaries from the blogosphere…
Blogging RailsConf:
Digital identity sucks!
* Repetitive
* Complex and inconsistent
* Poor UI
* Lack of control
* Unnecessary
An Open Identity system should be…
* Extensible
* User managed
* Open
* Perpetual (not just used once)
It’s about you
* The general idea is that when you go to a site, you are redirected back to your site, where you log in. The site that you intended to go to communicates to your site and confirms your identity, allowing you into the site you wanted to go to in the first place. And best of all, once you do login once, you’re on: Single Sign On!
* There are attributes that you control. You can specify the attributes that you want to share with each site.
* Some attributes (such as age, like if you are on a site selling alcoholic beverages) need to be verified. Certain companies would then be in the business of verifying OpenID attributes.
Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius
Kiran Dandekar made an entertaining point out of demonstrating the variety of information that has be made available about him in different contexts like business, community, family or alumni. The problem is, he stated, that identities and identity attributes are site centric on the web, so you have to start from scratch entering this information on every site and even identifying yourself, as opposed to when you – for example – board in the airport, and all the airline need to verify your identity is your driver’s license. The driver’s license is not issued by the airline, but nevertheless is accepted to identify you, because the issuer of the identity is trusted.
Matt’s presentation on Sunday morning was on OpenID and is definitely something I intend to track, as the architecture seems really viable. Way smarter than Passport.
Project Bantay
* Blend Yadis + OpenID and offer them as a service
* Building an identity 2.0 stack
o Protocol support
o Yadis
o OpenID 1.1
o http://openidenabled.com
o Mongrel
o A natural fit for HTTP-heavy protocols
o Tight, fast, secure
o Support for Handlers, Filters
o Zed Shaw is the man
o Identity server
o Single sign on
o Profile management
o Trust requests
o Consumer plugin
o Rails plugin
o Push-button simplicity
o Leverage Rails conventions
o Play nice with “old” idiom of user silo
o Bookmarks demo application
o Testing
o Interesting test environment
o Test libraries
o Test handlers
o Test Rails app
o Test cross-site functionality (Selenium)
o Mongrel Rules!
An identity ecosystem
* Cultivating Services
o Claims verification
o Dating sites: verify your gender
o pr0n: verfiy your age
o Job application: verify your green card
o No posting to kids’ blogs unless you’re <= 14
o Reputation
o Seller reputation
o Weenie reputation
o You can’t post blog comments
o No committing to Rails trunk unless you’re a verified pouty artsy wanker
o Trusting identity providers
+ Needs to be discussed
+ Trust chain
o Wide open marketplace
o Develop creative new services
Next steps
* Download the plugin – identity.eastmedia.com
* Download the bookmarks demo app
* Identity Server to be released this summer
* Play around. Use your noodle.
Emerging Identity Standards
I am deeply conflicted – Standards for users is happening at BloggerCon the same tim as Who Owns You at SuperNova.
So for both “”panels”” I though I would share that this week there were three major developments within the identity sector towards convergence around standards.
i-names global services launched
OpenID 2.0 clarified
and OSIS was formed A Giant Step to Reduce Uncertainty in the Digital Identity Marketplace
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Identity at Organizers Collaborative & A Model for Nonprofit Tech
I had a good time yesterday at the Organizers Collaborative Conference. I presented about the coming identity layer – sharing at a high level i-brokers, profile management and how people might manage their relationships with multiple civil society organizations. Two of my peers Jo Lee and Rob Stuart – long time participants in the nonprofit technology world were there specifically to see the latest developments and were impressed.
Earlier in the morning I stopped into Alissa Fencsik’s presentation on Technology Decision-Making for the Non-Technical Executive. She presented a good high level framework to help think about tech decisions.
At a basic level there is Infrastructure – it is like electricity you just turn it on and it works – all your staff have their own computers, they have e-mail accounts, you are doing regular backups etc.. With this layer in place it creates a foundation that prevents problems, minimizes damage if a problem arise and eliminates inefficiency.
Next is Automation with the goal of achieving business objectives more efficiently providing time savings, more information, addresses issues proactively not reactively and supports more effective and targeted marketing.
Innovative uses of technology are those that create social change by leveraging the new communication possible via the web and other information and communication technology (like text messaging). This might include new programs to address a community need or new tools that transform the ability to execute on mission.
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Identerati by Mark Dixon
I got to meet Mark for the first time last week at the Burton group. He has totally impressed me with this aggregate list in table form of the identerati. check to see if you are on it – if you are not and want to be just e-mail him. It is an amazing collection of links at www.whodentity.com. He says this a the top of the page.
I find it fascinating to study people who work in the Digital Identity industry – the Identarati. We can learn much from each other as we all seek to advance the state of the art in this industry.
I cannot hope to meet or even read about each of the myriads of people who are contributing to this dynamic industry. However, as a student of Identity Management, I am constantly learning about new people and listening to what they have to say.
I have decided to share my list of the Identarati with you. This isn’t a top ten list. It is simply a compilation of links to many of the interesting people I have discovered in my quest of Discovering Identity. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else you know for this list, please send me an email via =MarkDixon. I’d be delighted to learn about you and what you have to say. For those of you already on the list, please let me know if I need to update your information.
Identity as a Commons, like, air, water or energy
On the serious side of his talk here at Catalyst Mike N. put forward an understanding of market forces Identity as a Commons. Looking at the how the vendors none of whom can capture the plain have staked out positions in the mountains.
Along those lines one of the topics we will talk about at the Identity Gang meeting tomorrow will be identity commons 2.0.
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Burton Group coming up this week
Yesterday I checked into the Burton Group Catalyst conference and was impressed from the get go. They have blessed us with a box (instead of yet another cloth bag) containing the schedule and all the different ‘invitations‘ to the hospitality suites on on Wednesday and Thursday. They are super fun way better then the booth scene. SUN has a super hero theme. I wonder if I inspired this…Pat who I first met at the conference last year will be in the suite this year. They also have a really readable schedule. I am looking forward to doing a lot of vlogcasts (is that a word). If you are at the conference and want to be interviewed for a minute or two be sure to ping me. Oh yeah. I also poked my head into Identity Management 101. I am hoping to learn more about the enterprise.
BTW – what is the official ‘tag’ for the conference? I am assuming it is nacatalyst06
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Identity Woman Appears on Geek Entertainment Television!
If you haven’t heard of geek entertainment television you should check it out. I made it on to one of their latest episodes. “What is the Square Root of Net” from the Net Squared conference. Of course my answer to the question was ‘identity’… I am the second to last on the clip so you can scroll to the end if you just want to see me :)..
Another episode that I quite like is one shown in the ‘how to video blog’ session that covered the Maker Faire including the mulit-story mechanical giraffe.
They Also have a recent episode from the NerdSalon on Roomba Cock Fighting.
Open Space for Identity in Vancouver in July
This Identity Open Space is being jointly produced by Liberty Alliance and a group of people who are leading participants in the Internet Identity Workshop. We hope to provide attendees with a highly interactive format in which to explore the topic of user-centric identity. (((This is NOT the next IIW that Workshop2006b will be in November.)))
The goal of this support a face-to-face space to continue the emerging, ever changing conversation around identity. Not every one can be everywhere. It is our hope that it will provide an opportunity for those in the northwest (Oregon, Washington State, British Columbia) from a variety of fields – socially good techies, Web 2.0 innovators, Identity Gang participants to meet face to face and dialogue.
The wiki is here and registration here. Here is who is coming.
Topics likely to be discussed at the conference represent the many identity issues experts are working on today including:
* technical standards and specifications,
* use cases for a range of industries
* applying existing or emerging applications or platforms,
* Social and policy issues.
* Your Topics Post on the wiki
There are a lot of amazing minds working to solve the Internet’s ‘identity crisis’, and bringing them together frequently—formally and informally—is helping to drive tremendous progress in a marketplace full of pent-up demand for opportunities with truly empowered *end users* in the driver’s seat. – Brett McDowell, Director Liberty Alliance
Open Space meetings are successful because of the passion, energy and engagement of each and every attendee from the moment they decide to attend through their return to the workplace to implement what they experienced at the event—it’s truly a community-building event that doesn’t end. Building on our proven track record, this event will continue to expand participation in the conversation around the rapidly evolving identity landscape.
Kaliya Hamlin (aka Identity Woman) is the Open Space facilitator for this event. Rave reviews of the last Internet Identity Workshop she facilitated.
The fee will be $50 less if you are staying at the conference hotel please see the registration page for details.
Registration for Identity Open Space is $150 USD (June 16, 2006).
From June 17, 2006 – July 16, 2006 the price increases to $.
Onsite registration will be available at a fee of $300.
Accessibility is a core value of IIW – please contact me if you want cost is an issue for you.
Social Media:
The Tag for this event broadly is IdentityOS
The Tag for this specific event is IdentityOSVan
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