Identity Commons
Presentation at
ITU-T Focus Group on IdM
February 14, 2007
Geneva
Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman

Identity Commons
A shared space for facilitating the creation of a
user-centric identity layer of the Internet
“Upside-down Umbrella”
Loosely joined working groups with
extremely lightweight shared governance.

In the Beginning.....
Identity Commons was originally formed in 2001 to
evangelize the creation of a decentralized user-centric
identity infrastructure and to address the resulting
social trust issues.
At the time, these ideas were revolutionary.
Very few people were thinking about these issues,
much less doing anything about them.
http://wiki.idcommons.net/moin.cgi/Background

www.searls.com

The “Identity Gang”
PCForum
Burton Group Catalyst
DIDW
Berkman Center Harvard
Stanford CIS

Mailing List

John Kemp - Nokia Jeff Hodges - Neustar
Avery Glasser - VxV Robin Wilton - Sun
On The Identity Trail Bavo De Ridder - Ascure Pat Patterson - Sun
Dale Olds - Novell
Shekhar Jha Aldo Castañeda - Story of Digital Identity
Prateek Mishra / Phil Hunt - Oracle Rajeev Angal - Sun
Matthew Gertner - AllPeers
Stefan Brands - Credentica Fen Labalme - 2idi Andy Harjanto - Microsoft Phil Windley - BYU
Andre Durand - Ping Identity
Eric Leach - Sun Doc Searls
Eve Maler - Sun Mark Diodati - Burton Group Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics
Conor Cahill - Intel
Paul Toal - Capgemini David Recordon Sean O'Neill - Sun Jim Yang - Identyx Ben Laurie - Apache / The Bunker
Radovan Semančík - nLight Mark Dixon - Sun
David Kearns - IdM News Tim Bouma
Mark Wahl - Informed Control Andy Dale - ooTao Craig Burton
Michael Graves - Verisign Mark Wilcox - Oracle Simon Willison
Bob Blakley - Burton Group
Dennis Seah - Sun Dick Hardt - Identity 2.0 Aravindan Ranganathan- Sun
Dan Blum - Burton Group Pete Rowley - Red Hat David Kearns Nishant Kaushik - Oracle John Merrells
Rakesh Radhakrishnan - Sun Sara Gates - Sun Mike Beach - Boeing Identicentric Scott C. Lemon - FreeId.org
Planet Identity Brett McDowell - Liberty Julian Bond
Takashi Shitamichi - Sun
Michelle Dennedy - Sun
Paul Madsen
Xageroth Sekarius - SentientID Mark MacAuley - Trusted Network Technologies Scott Kveton - JanRain
Rob Marano - Falkin Peter Davis - Neustar Chuck Mortimore Don Park Don Bowen - Sun
Rohan Pinto - Sun Jamie Lewis - Burton Group
Roger Sullivan - Oracle Kaliya Hamlin - Identity Woman
Matt Flynn - RSA Bryan Field-Elliot - Ping Identity James Kobielus
Tatsuo Kudo - Sun Simon Grice - Midentity Kapil Sachdeva - Axalto Pamela Dingle - Nulli Secundus
Drummond Reed - Cordance Ashish Jain - Ping Identity Phil Becker / Eric Norlin - Digital ID World @ ZDNet
Hubert Le Van Gong - Sun Chris Ceppi - Ping Identity
Toby Stevens Timothy Grayson Sidharth Mishra - Sun
Connexitor - Symas
Christopher Allen - Alacrity
Tom Gordon - AlienPants Ashraf Motiwala - Identropy Mike Wyatt - Sun
Neil Wilson - Sun
Shingo Yamanaka - Sun Shelley Powers Digital ID World Editor's Corner
Tom Maddox - Opinity
Kim Cameron - Microsoft Indira Thangasamy - Sun Novell Security and Identity Cool Blogs Archie Reed - HP
Ludovic Poitou - Sun
http://www.planetidentity.org/
Trusted Network Technologies Digital Business Strategy

Listen to the people shaping the future of digital identity
www.stodid.com

The ideas presented here were extensively refined through the Blogosphere in a
wide-ranging conversation documented at www.identityblog.com that crossed
many of the conventional fault lines of the computer industry, and in various
private communications. In particular I would like to thank Arun Nanda, Andre
Durand, Bill Barnes, Carl Ellison, Caspar Bowden, Craig Burton, Dan Blum,
Dave Kearns, Dave Winer, Dick Hardt, Doc Searls, Drummond Reed, Ellen
McDermott, Eric Norlin, Esther Dyson, Fen Labalme, Identity Woman Kaliya, JC
Cannon, James Kobielus, James Governor, Jamie Lewis, John Shewchuk, Luke
Razzell, Marc Canter, Mark Wahl, Martin Taylor, Mike Jones, Phil Becker,
Radovan Janocek, Ravi Pandya, Robert Scoble, Scott C. Lemon, Simon Davies,
Stefan Brands, Stuart Kwan and William Heath.
7 Laws of Identity
Kim Cameron
4 More Laws Axioms of Identity
Fen Labalme Bob Blakeley
Laws of Relation Corollaries of Identifiers
Burton Group Drummond Reed
www.identityblog.com

Lexicon
Party - A natural person or a juridical entity.
Entity - A person, physical object, animal, or juridical entity
Digital Subject - An Entity represented or existing in the digital
realm which is being described or dealt with.
Agent - A computer system or device that has been delegated
(authority, responsibility, a function, etc.) by and acts for a Party
www.identitygang.org

Lexicon
Identity Attribute - A property of a Digital Subject that may
have zero or more values.
Claimant - A Digital Subject representing a Party that makes a Claim
Claim - An assertion made by a Claimant of the value or values
of one or more Identity Attributes of a Digital Subject,
typically an assertion which is disputed or in doubt.
Digital Identity - A digital representation of a set of Claims made
by one Party about itself or another Digital Subject.
Digital Identity Provider - An Agent that issues a Digital Identity.

Lexicon
Identity Context - The surrounding environment and circumstances that
determine meaning of Digital Identities and the
policies and protocols that govern their interactions.
Persona - A preexisting Digital Identity that a user through an
Agent has the ability to select and use to represent
themselves in a given Identity Context.
Relying Party - A Party that makes known through its Agent one
or more alternative sets of Claims that it desires or
requires, and receives through this same Agent a Digital
Identity purportedly including the required Claims from a
Digital Identity Provider or other Agent of another Party.

Internet Identity Workshop
October 2005
www.unconference.net

Internet Identity Workshop
May 2006
December 2006
Identity
Open Space
Berkman
June 06
Vancouver
July 06
San Jose
Sept 06

Identity Commons
Purpose and Principles

The purpose of Identity Commons
is to support, facilitate, and
promote the creation of an open
identity layer for the Internet, one
that maximizes control,
convenience, and privacy for the
individual while encouraging the
development of healthy,
interoperable communities.

1 Enable any working group to self-organize at
any time, on any scale, in any form, around any
activity consistent with the Purpose and
Principles.
2 Fully and transparently disclose the Purpose
and Principles of each working group, any
requirement of participation, and any license or
restriction of usage of its work product.
3 Conduct deliberations and make decisions by
bodies and methods that reasonably represent
all relevant and affected parties.

4 Vest authority, perform functions, and use
resources in the smallest or most local part that
includes all relevant and affected parties.
5 Resolve conflict without resort to economic,
legal, or other duress.
6 Conduct, publish, and archive communications
in a manner that facilitates open and trusted
interactions within and across all working
groups and the public Internet.

7 When feasible and appropriate, employ the
work product of Identity Commons working
groups to facilitate the operation and interaction
of Identity Commons itself.

Identity Commons
Working Groups
Community, Events and Advocacy
Identity Gang
Internet Identity Workshop
Identity Commons Collaborative Tools
EUCLId - End-User Collective for the Liberation of Identity

Identity Commons
Working Groups
Technology
OSIS
OpenID
Identity Schema’s
I-Tags
SAML Commons
Standards Gang
WISER Commons Architecture WG

Identity Commons
Working Groups
Social Agreements, Policy
Identity Rights Agreements
XDI.org
I-Broker Interoperation
XRI Registration Privacy
wiki.idcommons.net

Identity Commons
Working Groups
Working Groups must have a charter that is consistent
with the Purpose and Principles.
To form a Working Group, the sponsors should use the
Working Group Charter Template on the wiki to publish
a charter describing their purpose, process, and
deliverables.
They must also select one representative and one
alternate to serve on the StewardsCouncil.

Identity Commons
Stewards Council
The Stewards Council makes organizational decisions for Identity
Commons, which center primarily around managing resources
shared by all in the Commons. Decisions are made by a vote of
the majority.
The Steward serves as the Working Group's representative on the
Stewards Council and has a vote on organizational-wide issues,
including approving of new Working Groups.
Its deliberative process is totally open and transparent, and
anyone may participate. However, only Working Group
representatives have a vote on decisions.

Internet Identity Workshop
Identity Open
Identity Society Space
Open Space
Brussels
London April 25-26
February 19
San Francisco
September
Fall 2007
iiw.windley.com

Identity Commons
wiki.idcommons.net
Kaliya Hamlin
Identity Woman.net
kaliya(at)mac(dot)com