Empowering People
and the Coming Identity Layer of Everything
Kaliya Hamlin,
O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony
February 28, 2007

“Triple play”
Applications
&
Citizens
Communities
Operators

“Triple Play”
Vertical Phone calls
Voice
Voice mail
Service
Broadcast
Television
Television
Service
weather reports
Data
sports scores
Service
(the internet)

win - win - win
“Triple play”
Applications
&
Citizens
Communities
Identity
Operators

Citizens
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator

‘Namespaces out of control’
Still a growing problem
VoIP
Blogs
Websites
Instant
messaging
E-mail
Often >100 identities
Phone
today and growing fast
E-mail is Broken

User-Centric Paradigm
Big Co.
Web 1.0 Web 2.0

Good news - we succeeded
} service discovery protocol
XML - XRDS document
part of XRI (eXtensible Resource Identifier) OASIS spec
v2
authentication using
URLs or XRIs

Collaborator
=Kaliya
Relying
Party
Relying
Party
i-broker
OpenID
Provider
OpenID Authentication L ayer
The Web

Name Space for XRI
(eXtensible Resource Identifier)
=person +tags
@organization $dictionary
Abstract Identifier Layer
Reassignable Persistent
“i-name(s)” “i-number”
XRDS
XRI
Docu-
Resolution
ment
Telephone Network
URI / IRI
Instant Messaging
Layer of the Web

Laws of Identity
by Kim Cameron
Microsoft Chief Identity Architect
Card Space

Context Aware Identity Management
x-platform x-protocol Framework for Developers
WS* SAML
XRI & XDI Kerberos

OSIS
Identity-enabled Reputation Verification …
Businesses
$$
Core Identity Open Standards
Open-source Open-source Open-source Open-source
Project Open Source Identity Layer Project 4
Layer 1 Project 2 Project 3
Free
Identity-aware …
System 3
System 1 System 2
software
$$
Johannes Ernst

Value Expansion
Citizens Applications
Identity Layer
Increased Improved
Collaboration Experience
The Web
Ecologies
of Apps
Reputation Emergent
Business
Models
Validation
Attribute Discovery
Service Discovery

win - win - win
Applications
Citizens &
Communities
Identity
Operators

win - win - win
Applications
Citizens &
Communities
Identity
Operators
?

Identity Layer
The Web
Toll
Booth

win - win - win
Applications
&
Customer
Communities
Identity
Operators

Drawing Credit: Andre Durand - Ping Identity
http://discuss.andredurand.com/2007/02/23#a631

win - win - win
Applications
Citizens &
Communities
Identity
Operators

Value Expansion
Identity Layer
Identity Layer
The Web
The Web
Big
Bang

win - win - win
Next Steps Applications
Communities
Citizens Get an i-name
Become a Relying Party
or OpenID URL
Build and Leverage
Begin aggregating
Emerging Identity Services
your data.
Take advantage of the users authenticated
end Point to physical devices
Become Identity Brokers / Providers
Open up your Billing Systems
Operators

Further Resources
Identity Commons
wiki.idcommons.net
.net
kaliya@mac.com
skype:identitywoman
identityblog.com
OpenID.net
inames.net eclipse.org/higgins
iiw.windley.com osis.netmesh.org