OpenID @ Winterschool 2008

Slide 1: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture. OpenID Scott Wilson institute for educational cybernetics university of bolton

Slide 2: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Identity in technology • Simply an identifier correlated with credentials – majority of identity identifiers are local identifiers – majority of identity credentials are passwords • Identity can be correlated with attributes either self-asserted or externally verified • Attributes can be used to process access policies • Identity identifiers can be used for personalization

Slide 3: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture OpenID • OpenID offers globally unique identifiers (URLs) for identity rather than local identifiers • OpenID SREG enables self-asserted attributes for the purposes of registering on new sites • OpenID providers offer the credential checking (which is optional) • OpenID doesn’t guarantee the validity of any user attributes

Slide 4: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture OpenID • Board includes Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign, Yahoo!, Sxip, SixApart… • Around 10,000 sites support it • Integrated into lots of products: Drupal, MediaWiki, Wordpress… • Approx. 250,000,000 OpenIDs created

Slide 5: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture “ The bottom line: OpenID is a disuptive technology that allows web sites to share identity information and streamline authentication processes. Enterprises with a significant online presence can increase contact with their customers by adopting OpenID.” - Andrew Jacquith, Yankee Group

Slide 6: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture Already got one? Get one now http://wiki.openid.net/ OpenIDServers You can also now use: QuickTimeﾪ and a decompressor http://www.flickr.com/phot are needed to see this picture. http://blogname.blogsp ot.com/

Slide 7: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture Try it out • Make a comment on a Blogger blog • http://openiddirectory.com/ • https://www.myopenid.com/directory • Go to Jyte.com and claim something…

Slide 8: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture Why is OpenID interesting?

Slide 9: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture it isn’t really an authentication system That’s a good thing

Slide 10: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture it doesn’t really verify identity or identify the user That’s a good thing too

Slide 11: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture it doesn’t require or assume policy alignment or trust Nice and flexible…

Slide 12: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture it isn’t a provisioning system (Apart from SREG and AE, but they aren’t mandatory)

Slide 13: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture All it does is offer a means of asserting a relationship between an agent and a URL h o w c o o l is t h a t ?

Slide 14: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture This makes it a potential boundary mechanism for the coordination of individual, self- organised, and managed activity

Slide 15: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture OpenID is a pivot • It can provide an axis of coordination between the formal system and informal systems • OpenID actually doesn’t really authenticate or identify anyone, but it can connect things that use identity

Slide 16: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture A (bad?) example: Jyte RSS <item> feed <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:36:53 -0700</pubDate> <title>I have at least one unfinished novel that I work on intermittently.</title> <a u t h o r >h t t p :/ / e lih u . m y o p e n id . c o m / </ a u t h o r > <description><a href=\"http://jyte.com/profile/elihu.myopenid.com\" title=\"http://elihu.myopenid.com/\">Elihu</a> made this claim.</description> <link>http://jyte.com/cl/i-have-at-least-one-unfinished-novel-that-i-work-on-intermittently</link> <guid>http://jyte.com/cl/i-have-at-least-one-unfinished-novel-that-i-work-on-intermittently</guid> <category>novel</category> <category>writing</category> <category>hobby</category> <category>unfinished projects</category> </item> <item> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:48:31 -0700</pubDate> <title>I always thought nic was a hip-py, but now I think he's a hip-hop.</title> <a u t h o r >h t t p :/ / p a c k e r s 1 . m y o p e n id . c o m / </ a u t h o r> <description><a href=\"http://jyte.com/profile/packers1.myopenid.com\" Privacy! title=\"http://packers1.myopenid.com/\">Packers</a> made this claim.</description> oAuth? <link>http://jyte.com/cl/i-always-thought-www.tapsellferrier.co.uknicferrier-was-a-hip-py-but-now-i-think-hes-a-hip- hop</link> <guid>http://jyte.com/cl/i-always-thought-www.tapsellferrier.co.uknicferrier-was-a-hip-py-but-now-i-think-hes-a-hip-

Slide 17: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture Some potential uses Indirect evidencing & correlation, for assessment or for personal portfolio development Early-commitment coordination, for early engagement without institutional commitment Coordination of home/work/university boundary activities Tracking activity for coordination at group/course level Tracking activity for analytics and planning at

Slide 18: QuickTimeﾪ and a institute for educational cybernetics TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture Thanks for listening - over to you http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott (that’s also my OpenID, btw ;-) QuickTimeﾪ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture.

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