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INVITATION: Internet Identity Workshop & IOS

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Here is the invitation to the IIW that I will be sending out via e-mail over the next week. Please pass it along to others who might be interested in attending.

Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) May 14-16, 2007
Computer History Museum, Mountainview CA.
In Europe there is a similar event that I am facilitating as well.
Identity Open Space April 26-27 in Brussels.
The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. Come to this event to learn more, participate in the community and shape the future of the web.

What is User-Centric Identity?
User-centric identity starts with the individual, and his or her needs. 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 is going on in the field?
OpenID is emerging as a protocol for SSO across the web.

  • It has major adoptions from sites like AOL, Digg, FaceBook, and
  • open source platforms like MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla using it,
  • startups are forming around this emerging field like NetMesh, Sxip, and JanRain,
  • and reputation services are emerging like Opinity and Jyte.

Legal and Social issues about norms and uses of identity continue to surface.

  • How can I share my information and know it will not be misused?
  • How can we innovate better End User License Agreements?
  • How do young people, men, women and diverse groups understand and represent identity differently online?
  • How do online and offline identity relate?
  • How does ‘official identity‘ and ‘web constructed identities’ relate?
  • What is the role of anonymity and pseudonimity and how are they explicitly supported in this ecology?

What about Mobile Devices and Identity?
Vendor Relationship Management as an potential market segment is emerging
Microsoft Cardspace has been released on to Vista and XP desktops and Symantec has a user-centric Identity management product for the desktop.
There are several Open Source efforts to weave tools together – like Higgins, OSIS, Bandit.
Liberty protcols continue to be deoployed in enterprise and on the web.
Who is going to be there?
User-centric identity is an extremely active and growing conversation 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, Symantec Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Liberty Alliance, WS*, Verisign, Red Hat, SixApart, Kintera, Sxip, Cordance, NetMesh, JanRain 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. They are informal and purpose-driven. In every IIW so far, a high degree of progress has been made, within and between separate development efforts.
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.
Still wondering if it will be good or not? Read what folks said about the May 2006 conference.

Cost:
We are committed to keeping this conference open and accessible. If you want to come we want you there. If cost is an issue please contact us and we can discuss how to make it work.
* Students – $50
* Independents – $175
* Corporate – $300
The fees are used to cover the cost of the venue, organization, snacks and lunch both days. We encourage you to pre-register since we will limit attendance at the event to 200 people. The IIW workshop in December was strongly attended and we expect strong interest in this one as well.
If you would like to sponsor the event please contact us.
If you would like to speak at the event sign up to come…anyone can.
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Related to all of this is the Identity Management Focus Group of the International Telecommunications Union – here is the wiki and their mailing lists. The April meeting is the 23-25th in Geneva and May 16-18 is concurrent with IIW for one day and then continues for 2 more. They meeting following that is in July in Japan.

We had fun in Geneva IdMing

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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.

My ETel Talk

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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

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"THE" OpenID – MSFT announcement @ RSA

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This morning at RSA Bill Gates and Craig Mundie announced MSFT support of OpenID2.0. (Johannes has a good summary of the points they made too) I wouldn’t go so far to say that they got Married. But what exactly was announced? I spoke with David Recordon and Mike Jones after the announcement. (this picture is before the announcement).
The OpenID Relying parties will be able to request that the authentication be done in a Phising resistant way. Then the OpenID Provider will have it a way to assert that the authentication of the OpenID (a URL or XRI/I-name) has been done in a Phishing resistant way. CardSpace will be available as a primary way of providing this kind of authentication (for users on Windows machines).
This is a very exciting development as it expands the options available to users. Their are issues with Phishing in OpenID (as outlined here by Kim) and addressing this hole is key to making it a viable protocol that is good for users.
Kim talks about is request to the OpenID community in the blogosphere and in the meeting they had last week at JanRain (Scott blogged about that here).

My big ask was to add a way to request credentials based on phishing-resistant authentication…..[so that] the system is built to handle the dangers that would come with its own success.

The one question I have about this collaboration announcement why Cordance, NetMesh and other companies who have made major contributions and have critical stakes in the OpenID community were not listed in the announcement. I know it was pulled together very quickly but I think the contributions of those two companies have been extensive and deserved mention (and yes! they do have ‘code’).
There was also no mention of like Brad Fitzpatrick the originator of the OpenID and his company LiveJournal which is now a part of SixAppart.

RSA Opening: The Rock Concert for Security Heads

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I got the feeling walking in a Rock Concert for security heads. Among the music they played in the opening was OKGO’s Tredmill Song.
Then when the show started they opened up with a man and a woman singing Under Pressure with “security lyrics” complete with a backup choir of folks it seems that we have started a trend with Bohemian Rhapsody in the Key of ID (or maybe we are part of a trend).
Ze Frank came out as our host and talked about the risks and costs of new renaissance don’t outweigh the potential benefits.

It is official…Identity Society Meeting London Feb 19.

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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

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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.

Weddings this Weekend

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Chris and Ponzi and Raines and Betsy both got married on Saturday. One couple in Seattle and the other in Berkeley.
I had the pleasure to be witness to Raines and Betsy’s quaker wedding. Their was no celebrant we all sat quietly and they came in and sat at the front under the chupah. Then one of the quakers opened the meeting and said we would all sit quietly and wait for Betsy and Raines to say their vows and then sign the certificate. Once they did this then people arose as moved by the spirit to share thoughts. Then once it was over we all got to sign the certificate.
When I thought about it more and this blog post I came to think of it as a peer-to-peer wedding. Their union is real because we were all there to watch it happen – not because someone in ‘authority’ said it was so. I think of the social web we are building a bit like this. It is also more like how informal economies work – people own things (houses, trees etc) because everyone knows they do not because they have a piece of paper that says they do from a government ‘authority’.

One Week to Open Space and the 'un-talent show'

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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.

Gnomedex is not becoming the Attention ID Neutrality Conference

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I was just going through my cards and went to the Multi-Media Me. This post “Long Live Gnomedex!” was at the top and it cracked me up. He ran through some of the rumors about what would happen to the conference. This of course was my favorite.

Did you hear the one where Steve Gillmor, Kaliya Hamlin and Werner Vogels had bought the rights and were going to change the name to the Attention ID Neutrality Conference.

I had hear the rumors too…that Gnomedex 2006 was the last one. He points to a post that Chris did refuting the rumors.

The 4 overlapping people – Web2.0 and GreenFest

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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.

Topics not usually heard at a tech conference – Courage and Global Warming

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This morning at WITI Cindy Solomon gave a keynote on courage – what it is and how to bring it into your work and life. It was quite introspective not a typical talk at any of the tech conferences I go to.
At lunch we had a talk about climate change – we got the science talk from a ‘government scientist’ this was really boring since Al Gore did the best PPT ever on the topic and made it a movie. I didn’t need to have a science lecture. It was very refreshing though to have this topic raised. I have never heard it spoken about at a tech conference (except for Planetwork). If other tech conferences could learn something from WITI is that topics related to inner work – like self-reflection, personal development and leadership and that topics related to the outer world like Climate Change have a place in the mix of topics.
You know I think combining these two would be a great theme for the tech industry to consider – “Courage to face Global Warming” Anyways.
At lunch I had a good conversation with Sumi Panchal from San Jose. She shared with me some of the ‘origin stories’ of WITI. This information helped me understand way more about what this whole scene was about. It reminds me of the importance of story telling for organizational culture formation and the transference.
WITI was founded in 1989 and in part to support women who were working in regular professions, medical, dentel, legal etc. who had no training really in computers but now found them coming into their work place. WITI was a place to go and learn about them.

Come to the IIW in December – all you tech crunchers

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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.

Office 2.0 begins

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I was at the Office 2.0 pre-conference reception this evening…another very .com experience… EVERYONE was given an 2G ipod nano. It was sort of unbelievable (I thought initially I just got one because I am a speaker). I already have one (I bought it the first week they were out a year ago). I was thinking since I lost my camera at DIDW and I am really missing it (A Cannon Elph SD600) that I would trade the nano with someone who had a digital camera (perhaps if they are upgrading to something else). Just e-mail me if you are up for it.
From an OpenID/iname perspective people really liked to hear that there was an SSO solution. Ramana Rao who is on one of the closing panels said they were musing about the what where the things that if they didn’t happen would mean that this office 2.0 stuff would not succeed…Single-Sign-On was one of the things they had already thought of.
I met Robert Mao from UUZone a Social Network site in China with 6 million users. He is going to be giving them all OpenID’s and has convinced the ‘flickr of china’ to also adopt OpenID. They will both accept and issue OpenID’s. He also tole me about about OpenID.cn (they have a fun logo). I encouraged him to let people know about the Internet Identity Workshop in December – so who knows maybe we will have some more people from Asia there.
It was fun to see Mark Finnern along with his wife Marie and their baby Nina..yes a baby at a cocktail party it was really nice to see.

Meta-Conference report

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Yesturday I went to DreamForce the Salesforce.com conference..the thing is that it is a meta-conference… a sales conference about sales.
The Nonprofit Track: It was great to see my nonprofit tech buddies, Steve who runs the Sales Force Foundation, Katrin who is the leader of the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, Leda from Dot Organize, a new friend Khadijah from MassCOSH (the Massachusets Coalition for Ocupational Saftey and Health). She had a great story of frustration that speaks to the reality…she went with Drupal and and was optimistic about the potential of the platform but was totally disappointed by the tool and the ability to MAKE IT WORK well for her organizational context. As she said we are hoping this group of 19 year old developers will improve the platform…Well the fact is they haven’t really done it and disappointed a lot of folks. (I had high hopes too invested some money in customizing it for my constituents..but it never really got there). She was like SalesForce saved my ass. It is so good and I can get my 8 staff who need to use it to use it. She believes in open source still but needs it to work now…SalesForce solves that problem.
I got up and asked during the first session the first question…basically why should we trust SalesForce.com – why trust a big company with all my sensitive organizational data and what if they get acquired and change the relationship between the foundation and the company – making it not ‘free’ (for the first 10 seats). The response like – we are good people, the foundation is now part of the culture of the company, if they changed it …you would all get upset and cause a pr stir, trust is built over time and we have been doing this for 7 years.
The thing that really got me to shift was my conversation (later in the day) with David Donica the Information Technology Specialist for the Jefferson Economic Development Institute. I don’t know if you have heard of the stat of Jefferson but I am a big fan. It goes from ‘real’ Northern California into Southern Oregon. It is part of Cascadia that I broadly identify with. Jeffersonians are of course strongly independent so the fact that he trusts Salesforce with their data meant something.
In terms of identity related topics in this track one of the women asked .. ‘ how can my donors manage their bio’s or contact information on their own and just have it update’ This question resonated with a lot of folks. I offered up that the user-centric identity community was working on the solution to that problem. I talked to Steve a bit about it…he was like well we can just build that into App Exchange – I said well really it is going to live outside of that … the donors have an identity that they manage somewhere and it can talk to the nonprofit organizations they donate to. He got that it would be ‘outside’ their system and that it would be a good thing to have happen.
I got to seek Dick’s talk about Sxip Access it was a good talk and I think a great product for the problem it is solving. It helps the Enterprise Directory talk to ASP’s outside the enterprise ‘wall.’ This is a huge market and as more and more Office 2.0 ASP offerings are made it will only increase in demand. I case you were wondering Dick is still using the Viagra metaphor to talk about these subjects.
There were at least four office 2.0 applications at the conference and I talked with all of them about OpenID2 (Jive, INetOffice, ScanR, another one).
The internet cafe…was an uncafe. They had no terminals for you to use to check e-mails (I left my laptop at home). They had a rock concert by Train (I had never heard of them) in the evening and an openbar for like 4 hours (from like 6-the rock concert ended at like 10). It was very dot comish and people were commenting on that.
The product that seemed most interesting from an identity perspective was Domodomain that does ip analysis of the traffic coming to your website to let you know from where they are coming.

DreamForce, Office 2.0 and Seattle This Week

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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

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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

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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.

I-names conference coming out party

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This we is a big week for i-names with the first trade show booth ever! The soft launch happened at the Berkman Conference and I got to introduce the count down. We opened up the global registry. DIDW is more of a hard launch. There is a growing number of i-brokers who register names. There are some basic services running and more interesting ones coming. One in particular is EQUALS “‘Super identity’ for communications my way.” being developed by AmSoft.
ooTao created EZiBroker to offer back end i-broker services and is participating in the promotion being offered this week. You can get a global name for a year for $5. They have IWantMyNameNow.com up and running.
In case you didn’t know as part of my freelance open standards for user-centric identity evangelism work on contract with the folks at Cordance and work on behalf the i-names ecology.