I have been on a whirlwind of a month and not really had a tone of time to Blog. Mike Jones just sent some great pictures of our time at the ITU. Someone found the country placards and gave them out to us while we listened to Lee of Connection Commons give a friendly rant about the future of telco’s, the internet, identity and business models. Only 1/2 the people in the room have a “buddy list.”
I must thank David Recodon for being a great travel buddie on this trip. Two jetlagged brains are certainly better then one navigating the London underground between airports.
Open Space at the ITU was fun for all involved and a bit revolutionary for them. We got a wiki going for the event and ongoing work of the Working Groups. I am playing a bit of a “Paul Trevithick” role heading up the group on the Lexicon, and Ecosystem. I am going to really dive into that starting on the 15th or March when I finally land for 3 weeks at home.
David and I also stayed at Ben Laurie’s house (Thank You BEN and CAMILLA) on our way back and helped with the Identity Society Meeting that Luke and Mark helped out with at the BT Tower. We were lucky to be there. Apparently some of the Londoners in attendance had never been up in it ever.
We are headed back to Geneva in April from the 23-25 for meeting 2 of the Focus Group and then to Brussels for the Identity Open Space in association with Liberty Alliance on the 26-27. That starts at 11am on the 26th.
If you want to help with the Lexicon the first thing we are doing is collecting links to existing ones in standards groups or organization working on this topic. Send me a link or add one to the wiki page. We should have an e-mail list going by the end of the week. The ITU-T focus group on Identity Management will have its third meeting Internet Identity Workshop [16-18 of May] (the 16th will be part of the IIW open space and the 17-18 will be of site at Verisign). So don’t feel you have to get to Geneva to participate.
Annoucements of Events
My ETel Talk
Empowering People and the Coming Layer of Identity (Link to Slides)
win-win-win for Citizens – Applications & Communities & Operators
People are empowered with their identifiers get good service at reasonable rates along with the Freedom to Access the tools they want to on the network (free from operator interference and packet discrimination)
Application Builders and Service Providers can innovated new tools that work on the web and mobile devices.
Operators can have a business model that is more then just bit-haulers. They have a special relationship with the customer which means they can leverage:
- Authenticated End-points to physical devices.
- be OpenID / Identity Providers
- the Billing Relationship with the customer and the asset of their billing system they can open up to others.
Here is a list of Further Resources in the talk.
Identity Commons
OpenID
i-names
Card Space and Laws of Identity
Higgins
OSIS
Johannes Ernst who presented namespaces out of control.
Andre’s Diagram of Identity and Payment Networks converging.
EVENTS
Identity Commons Community
Internet Identity Workshop May 14-16, Mountainview
Identity Open Space April 26-27, Brussels
International Telecommunications Union Focus Group on Identity Management
Basically dealing with How do Network-centric, Application-Centric and User-Centric Identity Play well together?
Wiki on the last meeting Feb 13-16
April 23-25 Geneva
May 16-18 Mountainview
Technorati Tags: etel, etel07, identity, Identitycommons, Identitygang
It is official…Identity Society Meeting London Feb 19.
This is going to be a great follow on to BarCamp London happening on the weekend. (you have to scroll down to see the wiki content)
Monday, February 19th, 2007
Venue: BT Tower Restaurant, 34th Floor, 60 Cleveland Street, London W1
You are cordially invited to the Inaugural Identity Society Open Space event.
This event is for anyone who is interested in identity and its relevance to society. If you wish to attend please proceed to the Registration page. Please also feel free to spread the word to others! The wiki for the event can be found at IdentitySociety.org
- 8:30 am registration with 9.00 start (with two breaks and a one-hour lunch)
- Welcome and Open Space orientation
- Key speakers describe the genesis of the Identity Society and identity Open Space collaboration experience to date
- A discussion of topics for the break out sessions (which has already started in the identity society mailing list)
- Concluding sessions will include one on “Organising the Identity Society”
- The end of the open space is for announcements—and a sharing of the Open Space experience.
- Closing at the BT Tower Venue 4.00pm
- Everyone is invited for evening drinks (and possibly some food)
Initial discussion proposes that the “Identity Society” is not necessarily primarily a talking shop for the ins and outs of “identity technologies”, but might take a broader remit—of identity’s relevance to society as a whole—how we express our unique identity as individuals and collectives freely, but how we also want the benefits of cooperation and collaboration. This is of course in a context within which technology would have a vital place..
However, what Identity Society becomes is very much still up for grabs, and is down to all of us to decide. Which is hopefully what the Feb 19th meeting will help us begin to do.
We look forward to your contribution, in person or through the wiki.
Identity Event Dates
Last week we had three great events. Liberty 2.0, VRM and Mobile Identity.
The Spring program of Identity events has settled out.
February 7th will be a Identity Commons/Gang Dinner during the Week of RSA and the Open Mobile Alliance.
February 19th the folks in the UK are having and Identity Society gathering in London. It will be done with Open Space.
April 16-17 we will be doing and Identity Open Space in collaboration with Liberty Alliance before their meeting in Brussels.
May 14-16 will be Internet Identity Workshop in Mountainview will be the main meeting place for Identity Commons working groups.
One Week to Open Space and the 'un-talent show'
I am getting really excited that we are gathering in Mountain View next week. It should be another great gathering.
Lots of projects have great developments since the last IIW in May and I can’t wait to learn all about the developments. We will get a taste of these developments on Monday with the introductory afternoon.
Our Agenda making will be at 8:30 AM sharp on Tuesday. This is so we can get 3 working sessions in before lunch.
Wednesday agenda creation will be at 9:30 on with an informal session during the hour before over breakfast.
One of the highlights will be the “un-talent” show on Tuesday night. The restaurant has a great stage and will have a sound system. If you have a guitar or other musical instruments you play – bring them. They said they would have a keyboard there.
I have been busy working on the logistics – food wise during the day we have the – The Barista, All the fruit you can eat, Trader Joe’s Snacks, etc. Lunch will be the same as last time Dee Dee’s Indian on Tuesday and The Country Deli sandwiches on Wednesday. Monday nights dinner will be at Amarin Thai and Tuesday at the Latin Bistro.
The 4 overlapping people – Web2.0 and GreenFest
Last week was full.
I joined a startup (Confabb),
went to the hallway track and events around the edge of Web 2.0,
facilitated Ruby on Rails Camp in San Jose,
peeked my head into Web2poin2 (the one track? unconference?)
and caught the very end of the NTEN Social Change and Wireless conference.
Over the weekend I went to the Green Festival – ironically it had its own “DotCom” party brought to us by SustainLane.
The interesting thing was the four people who were at both Web2.0 and Green Fest. Myself, David Fox, Tom Rielly from TED and Victor from earthgrid.
If you went to the Green Festival or Web 2.0 you can go in to Confabb and rate and review any of the sessions. I am hoping we can use this for the upcoming Internet Identity Workshop.
ps. if you were at both events feel free to contact me and I will ad you to the list.
Come to the IIW in December – all you tech crunchers
Technorati announced support for OpenID blog claiming. And it got tech crunched!!!!
For all you tech crunchers coming to visit me. I want to invite you to the Internet Identity Workshop December 4-6 in Mountainview . It is going to be super fantastic and you can get to participate in the OpenID and other aspects of the user-centric identity discussion because it is an Open Space Conference.
THE FOCUS
User-centric identity starts with the individual, and his or her needs. It does not start with enterprise or technology vendors, although plenty of those have been involved in user-centric conversations and development projects form the beginning. It is about working relationships and services between individuals and retailers, employers, membership bodies, and organizations of any kind. It is not about a centralized solution, or anybody’s silo. As such it solves different problems than the familiar ones of providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization, or federation between different organizations.
WHAT THE CONFERENCE IS LIKE
Internet Identity Workshops are informal and purpose-driven. In every IIW so far, a high degree of progress has been made, within and between separate development efforts. IIWs also serve as the main forums for face-to-face meeting of the whole user-centric identity community.
The user-centric identity conversation is an extremely active and growing involving many converging development efforts — by open source communities, by vendors large and small, and by customers of all sizes. Internet Identity Workshops are where
Mozilla, Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Liberty Alliance, WS*, Verisign, Red Hat, SixApart and many other projects and companies meet to work toward common goals and real solutions. They are joined by customers of all sizes as well. You won’t find a higher ratio anywhere of real productivity to idle chat and marketing BS that are typical to many conferences.
The workshops are organized by a working group within Identity Commons, and are run on Open Space practices and principles*. There are no formal presentations, no keynotes, no panels. Instead, topics are vetted and chosen by participants when the workshop convenes, and open meetings are organized and scheduled for the day that follows. Given the paths of various development projects, however, we expect the following to come up at the workshop:
* Technical protocols, frameworks and proposals such as: OpenID (Sxip, LID, i-names, XRI, Yadis), SAML, Identity metasystem, CardSpace, i-cards, Open Source Identity Selector (OSIS), XDI, itags, Identity Schemas and the Higgins Project.
* The nitty gritty of how to do implementation for startups, large existing customer bases, political campaigns and nonprofit adopters.
* The user experiences of identity systems – what do we know? what do we need to learn more about?
* Legal and social issues like identity rights agreements, reputation, privacy, anonymity, etc.
* Exploring emerging use cases for an identity layer in markets such as user generated video, innovative economic networks, attention and intention brokering, lead generation, user-driven preferences, and social networking.
DreamForce, Office 2.0 and Seattle This Week
This is going to be a fun week. I was up at Iovation the last week of September. They invited Placial and JanRain over to talk Identity at the end of my day with them. They are integrating OpenID into one of the products they are showing at DreamForce. This inspired me to go and check out the show. I applied for a Press Pass and got one (I guess the dig bloggers)…the best part of this whole story was that on the application I listed my Title: Super Hero and Company: Identity Woman.
Dick Hardt is also talking there on Monday in the IT Executive Track. This is the description of the talk:
Identity 2.0 and Salesforce
When thinking of identity and salesforce.com, several things come to mind: users logging into salesforce.com; the customer data stored in the application; and customers logging into the self service portal. Learn how all three of these are related with the emerging Internet Identity Infrastructure known as Identity 2.0, as well as what salesforce.com customers are doing today in identity management.
On Wednesday I will be Talking at Office 2.0 on a panel about open standards. I had the dubious honor of being the original ‘only woman’ speaking (out of 54) until the women bloggers had a little uproar about that. Now there are 7 on the program.
Thursday I am heading up to Seattle to meet with Cordance and other Seattle business. I will be there all weekend and returning on Tuesday the 17th. I am open to coalescing a dinner in Seattle if there is demand. E-mail me to let me know.
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
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.
Away Again
I had a wonderful time at Foo Camp. The OpenID meeting yesturday was interesting. Identity Commons call this morning went well. Lots to blog about but I am off to the Plya now. So I look forward seeing all at the Identity Open Space (register now if you have not done so yet … if you don’t we can’t order you lunch) and Digital Identity World. It should be a fantastic show.
OpenID2 Developer Info Day Aug 10th Bay Area
I am really pleased to announce that we have an
OpenID Informational Evening for Developers
August 10th 6-9 in Berkeley at 2029 University, Upstairs.
The Big news is the community has converged and figured out the authentication layer – OpenID…OpenID is just the authentication layer – but on top of this ad hoc standard lots of cool stuff can happen. The goal of the evening is not to geek out on identity but to connect with a developers working on applications that require users to login.
Find out more about what it is…how it works…how you can install. The incentives to learn are high with the $5000 bounty for having OpenID in Open Source projects.
Presenting and answering Questions
David Recordon formerly of Live Journal/Six Appart now of Verisign will be presenting a bit about the origins of OpenID but most importantly how it works…and how you install it.
Andy Dale from ooTao will talk a bit about i-names and how they work with OpenID2 and looking forward to what comes next after authentication – profile sharing. ooTao is also data sharing are running ibroker services.
Mary Hodder CEO of Dabble will talk about the work happening around the development of itags.
I am helping coordinate the evening please RSVP to me – kaliya (at) Mac (dot) com and feel free to ask me any questions.
If you know a developer – pass the word along.
ps. for all you Technorati guys who keep having questions…now is your chance to ask the guys who know.
UPDATE: Scott Keveton from JanRain will be there too…He just posted an OpenID walk through on his site.
UPDATE 2:Dick Hardt from Sxip will be in town and will also be joining us for the evening. Hopefully he will share some of the cool stuff sxip is doing with OpenID.
Idnetity at OSCON
For those of you joining identity folks – me, Doc Searls, David Recordon, Dick Hardt, Drummond Reed, Scott Kveton, Larry Drebes Dave Kearns, Scott Mace here at OSCON there will be a few opportunities to learn more about what we all have been up to.
1) At OSCAMP tomorrow the OpenID convergence folks plan on runing a session in the afternoon tomorrow approximately 1:30 – 3:00.
2) David Recordon has a session on Practical OpenID in OSCON proper on friday 10:45 – 11:30.
I am going to propose that we have a sheet at OSCAMP that says ask the identity folks a question so you can ‘ping us’ in meet space – while at OSCON. We can have more sessions during OSCamp on what you want to know about. I will list them here as I know about them.
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)
Identity at MashupCamp
I am at MashupCamp2 today facilitating. It is really fun to get up there and help 300+ folks make their own agenda for the day. The energy in the room is fantastic. People were asking me to encourage the sessions to be more spread out cause they wanted to go like to 4 different discussions proposed in one time slot.
Johannes Ernst and David Recordon are hear and there are at least two different sessions around identity on the schedule. I am in the first session being lead by Johannes scoping out the problem set and around identity and mashups.
Technorati Tags: identity, MashupCamp, mashupcamp2, unconference
An Exciting Summer coming up…
I am getting ready for an exciting next few weeks and busy summer. Here is the plan. I have posted all of these on my sidebar in the where I will be section.
Saturday(10) and Sunday(11) coming up is VloggerCon.
On Monday(12) I am going to stop by the Liberty Alliance Web Services informational meeting – to understand those elements of identity.
Tuesday(13) I will be going to some of the activities surrounding Where 2.0.
Wednesday(14) to Friday(16) I will be at Burton Group Catalyst Conference.
Saturday(17) I will be in Boston for the Organizers Collaborative.
Monday(19) to Wednesday(21) I will be at the Identity Mashup at Berkman.
Thursday(22) I will participate in some of the activities surrounding SuperNova.
Friday(23) and Saturday(24) I will be going to some of Dave Winers BloggerCon.
Friday(24) – Sunday(25) I will be participating in SFBarCamp
I am strongly considering attending Gnomedex and then will head to the Oregon Country Fair.
Then I am back in the Bay to facilitate Mashup Camp July 12-13.
For vacation I am heading to Vancouver for the Folk Music Festival July 14-16.
Then I am going to be facilitating Identity Open Space July 20-21.
I am presenting on Face-2-Face: Group Process for communities at OSCON on the 24th and will be around all week. I fly to San Jose for BlogHer.
I am going to be at the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation August 3-6 in San Francisco.
I head to HollyHock for a break and workshop on Leadership with an amazing teacher Robert Gass. Then it is down to Seattle and off to Burning Man (for the first time).
Then it is back to the Bay for an interesting sandwich Digital Identity World with Power to the Peaceful the weekend before and Earth Dance the weekend afterwards.
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
Technorati Tags: conference, identity, iiw, iiw2006, LibertyAlliance, Open space, unconference
Announcing The Virtual Rights Symposium on Digital Identity & Human Rights
This is the first of what we hope to be an annual event about Digital
Identity and Human Rights covering social issues, policy and
legislation in this arena.
The goal is to foster international cooperation on virtual rights
through high quality dialogue and deliberation between legislators,
researchers, service providers, and citizens.
The symposium will begin in September with interaction online both
synchronous and asynchronous. It will peak with a meeting in Costa Rica November 17-18th and continue online afterwards.
Virtual Rights Association is organizing the event in cooperation with Costa Rica University and the Berkman Center. Chair Jaco Aizerman please contact him at =jaco or http://public.xdi.org/=jaco
Please go to thewebsite at Virtual Rights to see the current version of the agenda.
Announcing the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2005)
There’s been considerable conversation around identity on the Internet, or what some would call grassroots identity. Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that may or may not have any kind of formalized relationship is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization. Many have argued that the lack of a credible identity infrastructure will eventually result in the Internet being so overrun with fraud as to make it useless for many interesting uses.
To solve this problem, or pieces of it, companies and individuals have made a variety of architectural and governance proposals. Some of these include:
- The Liberty Alliance
- Microsoft’sInfoCardsystem
- Identity Commons
- SXIP
- OpenID
- LID
- XRI/XDI(i-names)
- Passel
Myself, Phil Windley, Drummond Reed, and Doc Searls are hosting the Internet Identity Workshop in Berkeley on October 25 and 26th to provide a forum to disucss these and other architectural and governance proposals for Internet-wide identity services and their underlying philosophies. The workshop will comprise a day of presentations on Internet-scale identity architectures followed by a day of structured open space to accommodate the range of topics and issues that will emerge from day one and other issues and identity services that do not fit into the scope of the formal presentations. We’re hoping that adding a little more formality to the conversation will aid in digesting some of the various proposals.
We’re inviting presentations for the first day on the following topics:
- Problems, issues, politics, and economics or Internet-scale identity systems.
- Architectures for Internet-scale identity systems
- Philosophies that drive architectural decisions in these systems (see Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity for an example of such a philosophy
If you’d like to present on some other topic, drop one of us a line first and we’ll see how it fits in. Prospective presenters will be asked to submit a 250-300 word abstract. We hope to accomodate everyone, but we may end up picking from the abstracts.
I’m excited about this and looking forward to it. I hope we can have a good set of presentations the first day and a solid day of discussion the second. If you’re interested in this sort of thing, I hope to see you there. Please read the full announcement for some other details and register if you’re coming. There is a $75 charge to cover the cost of the venue, administrative expenses, and the cost of snacks and lunch both dats.