This is a presentation was given as introduction to the Identity Community for IIW-East with the theme Open Identity for Open Government.

1. IIW-East INTERNET IDENTITY WORKSHOP
A WORKING GROUP OF IDENTITY COMMONS
Open Identity for Open Government
September 9th, 2010
Introduction to the
Identity Community
by Kaliya Hamlin @identitywoman

2. Who is IIW?
Co-Founders
Co-Producers
Phil Kaliya Doc
Windley Young Searls
Hamlin
Heidi Nobantu Saul
IIW-East Production
Co-Facilitation

3. 5 yrs of Face to DIDW
Face MeetingsBurton Group IIW5
RSA IOS 4
2007 IIW 4 IOS 3
IOS 2 OSIS Interop 2
2006 IIW 3 Data Sharing Workshop
DIDW
RSA Burton Group
IOS 1 OSIS Interop 1
2005 DIDW IIW 2
2004 DIDW IIW 1
2003
DIDW

4. 5 yrs of Face to
DIDW
Face Meetings Group
Burton
IIW 11
2010 RSA IIW-Europe
DIDW IIW-East
Burton Group IIW 10
2009
RSA IIW 9
DIDW IIW 8
Burton Group OSIS Interop5
RSA IIW 7
2008 OSIS Interop 4
IIW 6 Data Sharing Summit
Data Sharing Workshop OSIS Interop 3

5. Peers and
Relationships

6. Unconference Format

7. Container to Connect
Various Efforts

8. Planetwork
Loose Affiliations of People Evolution of Identity Community Link Tank
FireFly
Liberty Alliance
Current Organizations Higgins
Project SUN Oracle BT
Microsoft Identity
Lots of Companies Commons (1)
Organizations (no longer) Passport XRI
XDI
Hailstorm SAML
v1 & 2
Company
Identity
IBM Gang
Proprietary Service (no longer)
VENN OF
IDENTITY
Protocol standardized at OASIS Internet Identity
OpenID Workshop
v2
Protocol standardized at OASIS IMI
Identity Metasystem OpenID
earlier version (no longer) Interoperability Foundation
TIME
Information Card
Standard
Independent Open Protocol
Information
Card
Independent Open Protocol Foundation Identity
Commons (2)
(no longer)
Pamela
Project
Paper:Shared Understanding
Kantara Intiative
Project to be
annouced at
Event IIW
Open Identity
Exchange
Project to be
Project with Code annouced at
IIW

9. Mission statements:
• Identity Commons: 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.
• Information Card Foundation: Promote, protect, and enable the development of an open,
trusted, interoperable, royalty-free identity layer for the Internet that maximizes control over
personal information by individuals
• OpenID Foundation: To foster and promote the development of, public access to, and
adoption of OpenID as a framework for user-centric identity on the Internet; and To acquire,
create, hold, and manage intellectual property related to OpenID and provide equal access to
such intellectual property to the OpenID community and public at no charge.
• Kantara Intiative: Foster identity community harmonization, interoperability, innovation,
and broad adoption through the development of open identity specifications, operational
frameworks, education programs, deployment and usage best practices for privacy-
respecting, secure access to online services
• Open Identity Exchange: Collecting aggregating, and distributing information regarding
the identity-related services industry to businesses and other stakeholders in that industry in
order to improve conditions in that industry by fostering innovation, market transparency,
and identity-related product and service interoperability; Providing a neutral, open market
registration system for participants in the identity-related services industry;
• Data Portability Project: Data portability enables a borderless experience, where people
can move easily between network services, reusing data they provide while controlling their
privacy and respecting the privacy of others. Our Mission is to help people to use and protect
the data they create on networked services, and to advocate for compliance with the values
of DataPortability.

10. One of the main community organizations linking various
efforts is Identity Commons.
OIX
Open ID
PDX
OSIS
Open Source
Key
Foundation Identity System
Information
Group that who's
Card home is at Identity
Foundation IDMedia Commons
Review
XDI.ORG
Data Independant
Photo Nonprofit
Portability
Project
Identity Group Organization
Commons Kids
Internet Identity Online Project at
Workshop another
organization
Project Identity
Schemas Identity
VRM Gang
Nick's
Pamela Legacy EVENT
Higgins Project ID-Legal
Project

11. Broad Base of Participation SMALL COMPANY
BIG COMPANY SPONSORS SPONSORS
NONPROFIT SPONSORS
MSFT FuGen Solutions
ISOC
PingID OUNO
Kantara/Liberty Alliance CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
SUN Rel-ID
Info Card Foundation Paypal
Facebook Poken
OASIS IDTrust Booz Allen Hamilton SMALL COMPANY
Google Vidoop
Mozilla Apple PATICIPANTS
Yahoo Chimp
Higgins Project
Cisco
Burton Group Authentrus Ångströ
Bandit Project Hewlett Packared Digg, Inc.
Plaxo Sxip
Planetwork International Business Machines Privo
Internet Society Commerce Net Intuit ClaimID
Expensify
Adobe LexisNexis FamilySearch.org
NONPROFIT BT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation FreshBooks
PARTICIPANTS Novell Nokia Siemens Networks Gigya
Center for Democracy and Facebook NRI Gluu
Technology AOL Oracle Janrain
DataPortability Project Ping Identity Orange Kynetx
IdM Network Netherlands Paypal / eBay Rackspace NetMesh Inc.
OCLC Radiant Logic Protiviti
Open Forum Foundation
World Economic Forum
Sony Ericsson
The MITRE Corporation
IETF Socialtext
TriCipher, Inc.
UNIVERSITY PARTICIPANTS
Tucows Inc
VeriSign, Inc.
W3C Trusted-ID
Wave Systems
Goldsmiths, University of London
Newcastle University
Stanford University
Vodafone Group R &D
Alcatel-Lucent OASIS Six Apart
Acxiom Identity Solutions
Acxiom Research
GOVERNMENT PARTICIPANTS Equifax
Office of the Chief Informaiton Office,
Province of British Columbia
LinkedIn
Amazon
and more...

12. Lots of Open Standards
Information XRI/XDI
Cards
SAML

13. What do we Share?
Shared History
Shared Vision
Shared Context
Shared Language
Shared Understanding
Shared Technology Development

14. Shared History

15. SHARED EXPERIENCE in past wars
THE Directory Wars
of the 90s

16. SHARED EXPERIENCE in past wars
Passport & Hailstorm
vs

17. SHARED VISION for people’s identity
on the scale of the web.

18. Freedom
and
Autonomy
for People

19. Open Standards
are Essential

20. No One
Dominant Player

21. There will be a
Big Bang
With all new technologies there is a point at which new things start
happening that the creators of the technology did not envision this is a
big bang in identity.

22. Shared Context

23. CONTEXT For Shared Vision
IDENTITY GANG!
formed in 2004

24. CONTEXT For Shared Vision
Early on the Identity Gang list was a critical forum for community
collaboration it is still active here & many of the protocol efforts &
foundations that have emerged have their own lists.
http://lists.idcommons.net/lists/info/community

25. CONTEXT For Shared Vision
The Identity Gang was probably one of the first technical communities to have a very active
community blog life that complemented our mailing list conversations. Doc Searls played a
critical role in getting almost all community members to blog in the early days of the
community 2004-2005.
There are several aggregated blogs you can go to get a sense of activity in the community.
The Classic - www.planetidentity.org/
A newer one under development - http://seriouslyidentity.com/

26. CONTEXT For Shared Vision
s
Wiki forums were critical for sharing ideas and
common language like the Lexicon

27. CONTEXT For Shared Vision
Real Time Web Tools
SEARCH
These are newer mediums for collaboration and
information sharing using #hashtags etc. to connect work.

28. Shared Language

29. SHARED LANGUAGE
developed in Shared Context
Identity Gang LEXICON (driven by Paul Trevithick)
in August 2005
1.Agent 6. Entity
2.Claim 7. Identity Attribute
3.Claimant 8. Identity Context
4.Digital Identity 9. Party
5.Digital Identity Provider 10. Persona
6.Digital Subject 11. Relying Party
http://wiki.idcommons.net/Lexicon

30. SHARED LANGUAGE
developed in Shared Context
Scott David’s chair of the ID-Legal group at
Identity Commons and council to several of the
organizations in this space is working with the
American Bar Association to develop a meta
lexicon across 35+ lexicons in related fields.
“We have included 37 glossaries of terms and have over 1700 different
definitions! Most of the definitions are more security related than identity
related, but they may prove useful to have them all together.”

31. Shared
Understanding

32. SHARED UNDERSTANDING
using shared language
Laws of Identity
Kim Cameron in May 2005
http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/thelaws.html

33. SHARED UNDERSTANDING
using shared language
Laws of Identity Kim Cameron in May 2005
1. User Control and Consent
2. Minimal Disclosure for a Constrained Use
3. Justifiable Parties
4. Directed Identity
5. Pluralism of Operators and Technologies
6. Human Integration
7. Consistent Experience Across Contexts

34. SHARED UNDERSTANDING
using shared language
A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web September 4, 2007
Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington
Preamble:
There are already many who support the ideas laid out in this Bill of Rights, but we are actively seeking
to grow the roster of those publicly backing the principles and approaches it outlines. That said, this Bill
of Rights is not a document “carved in stone” (or written on paper). It is a blog post, and it is intended
to spur conversation and debate, which will naturally lead to tweaks of the language. So, let’s get the
dialogue going and get as many of the major stakeholders on board as we can!
A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically:
• Ownership of their own personal information, including:
◦ their own profile data
◦ the list of people they are connected to
◦ the activity stream of content they create;
• Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others; and
• Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.
Sites supporting these rights shall:
• Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that’s shared
with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats;
• Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site;
• Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way; and
• Allow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site, using the same external
identifiers made available for lookup within the service.

35. SHARED UNDERSTANDING
using shared language
OECD Paper Properties of Identity
At a Crossroads: "Personhood"
and the Digital Identity in the
Information Society
http://bit.ly/OECDdigitalpersonnood

36. SHARED UNDERSTANDING
using shared language
Properties of Identity
1.Identity is social. 6.Identity is consequential.
2.Identity is subjective. 7.Identity is dynamic.
3.Identity is valuable. 8.Identity is contextual.
4.Identity is referential. 9.Identity is equivocal.
5.Identity is composite.
OECD Paper At a Crossroads: "Personhood" and the Digital Identity in
the Information Society
The Properties of Identity were articulated by Bob Blakley, Jeff Broberg, Anthony Nadalin, Dale Olds,
Mary Ruddy, Mary Rundle, and Paul Trevithick.

37. Shared Technology
Development

38. SHARED UNDERSTANDING
Identifiers Claims
Single String Pairs
A claim is by one party about
Identifiers link things together another or itself.
and enable correlation.
It does not have to be linked to
They can be endpoints on the an identifier.
internet.
Proving you are over 18 for
example and not giving your
real name.

39. the Evolution
of the VENN

40. Eve’s diagram 1.0 and 2.0

41. Evolution of OpenID
}
OpenID v1
+
Lightweight Identity LID
+
XRI / i-names
+
sxip
v2

42. Evolution of SAML
This diagram is from a presentation by Eve Maler given at IIW

43. Information Cards

44. SHARED INDUSTRY LANDSCAP

45. the Evolution of
Discovery

46. Evolution of Discovery
XRDS --> XRD-Simple --> XRD
(within XRI spec)

47. Hammer Stack Today

48. Protocol Family Tree
XNS XNS.org
Current Organizations
Organizations (no longer) XDI XRI
XDI.ORG
Event
XRDS Internet
Identity
Independent Open Protocol
Workshop
Independent Open Protocol
XRD #1 Oct 2005
i-names
(no longer) Simple XRI
Protocol standardized at OASIS YADIS
OpenID
Protocol standardized at OASIS
earlier version (no longer) XRD v1
OpenID LID
v2
sxip
OpenID
Web Foundation
OpenID
Finger v Next

49. Collaboration

50. OSIS Interop

51. 3rd Interop RSA Conference
Spring 2007
European Identity Conference

52. Emerging
Ideas

53. User Data Banks &
Exchanges
$
APPLICATIONS
EXCHANGE
REFINEMENT
STORAGE
ID + ENCRYPTION
DATA + META DATA
SOURCES
Stack for User Data Banks - Marc Davis

54. Personal Data Store Ecology
Open Standards based Personal Data Stores with people
groups and businesses as first class objects on network.
Will include full portability and a range of services.

55. Project VRM - 4th Parties
http://bit.ly/VRM4thParty

56. Challenges and
Opportunities

57. How do all these
technical protocols
solve real problems?

58. How do we apply these
technologies in different realms?
Government Social Sites
Ultimately it must work
for “regular” people
Businesses Organizations

59. Usability?
Different Contexts

60. What are the
emerging legal
frameworks to protect
& empower
end-users?

61. How does identity work
between them?
TECHNOLOGY
SOCIAL ? BUSINESS
LEGAL

62. Where are we going?
Open Identity for Open Government
covered in the next presentation by Mary Ruddy

63. IIW-East INTERNET IDENTITY WORKSHOP
A WORKING GROUP OF IDENTITY COMMONS
Open Identity for Open Government
www.internetidentityworkshop.com
www.idcommons.net
Kaliya Young Hamlin
@identitywoman
kaliya@mac.com
www.identitywoman.net