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HOPE X
Updates from the
Online Identity Battlefield
Joint Presentation by:
Aestetix @aestetix
Kaliya “Identity Woman” @identitywoman
Our Intentions:
1) Update on the history #nymwars
Did we “win” with G+ acquiescing?
2) The Battle continues - at its center are key words
& concepts and the struggle for meaning.
3) Share more about one battlefield : NSTIC
Hoped for result some of you choose to
“participate” struggling & using this lever
to protect psydonymity and anonymity.
Who are we? - contextual intro’s from each of us
Aestetix - reveiw of talk from Hope 9
Kaliya - Indie Advocate for user-centrism + IIW
How we Connected - NSTIC!
Kaliya - What is NSTIC? - rapid history
Aestetix - Experience w/ Nym Issues to NSTIC
Words & Concepts on the Battlefield:
[Triangles - Circles] Trust Identity Verified Reputation
Paths Forward:
Limited Liability Persona BC Government Solution
Turtles all the Way Down Writing out what we want!
NSTIC Next Steps
“Hacking the Trust Frameworks” + Next Meeting Florida Biometrics Con.
How should it work from a freedom civil liberties perspective?
aestetix
“is a mononym”
• #nymwars
• HOPE Number Nine
• What is a “real” name?
• NSTIC/IDESG
#nymwars
#nymwars
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman at Google:
• “The only way to manage this is true transparency and no
anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too
dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We
need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will
demand it.” (Techonomy, August 2010)
• “If you have something that you don't want anyone to know,
maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."(CNBC
Interview, December 2009)
#nymwars
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO at Facebook:
“The days of you having a different image for
your work friends or co-workers and for the
other people you know are probably coming to
an end pretty quickly.
Having two identities for yourself is an
example of a lack of integrity.” (Interview,
October 2011)
#nymwars
Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa
Independent Advocate for the Rights
and Dignity of our Digital Selves
Saving the world with User-Centric Identity
I have had my identity woman blog for almost 10 years
Early 2000’s I was working on developing
Distributed Social Networks for Transformation
Protocol:
How Control Exists
after Decentralization
by Alexander R. Galloway
Protocols are Political
They matter! as Snowden said today at HOPEX
We founded IIW in 2005
Internet Identity Workshop
Unconference Format
Hailstorm SAML
v1 & 2
BTOracleSUN
XRI
XDI
Passport
Microsoft
FireFly
Liberty Alliance
Kantara Intiative
Planetwork
Link Tank
Identity
Commons (1)
Identity
Gang
Identity
Commons (2)
OpenID
v2
OpenID
Foundation
Open Identity
Exchange
Information
Card
Foundation
IMI
Identity Metasystem
Interoperability
Information Card
Standard
VENN OF
IDENTITY
Higgins
Project
Lots of Companies
Project to be
annouced at
IIW
IBM
Project to be
annouced at
IIW
Pamela
Project
TIME
Internet Identity
Workshop
Loose Affiliations of People
Current Organizations
Organizations (no longer)
Company
Proprietary Service (no longer)
Protocol standardized at OASIS
Protocol standardized at OASIS
earlier version (no longer)
Independent Open Protocol
Independent Open Protocol
(no longer)
Paper:Shared Understanding
Event
Project with Code
Evolution of Identity Community
Broad Base of Participation
BIG COMPANY SPONSORS
MSFT
PingID
SUN
Facebook
Google
Yahoo
Cisco
Plaxo
Commerce Net
Adobe
BT
Novell
Facebook
AOL
Ping Identity
Paypal / eBay
NONPROFIT SPONSORS
ISOC
Kantara/Liberty Alliance
Info Card Foundation
OASIS IDTrust
Mozilla
Higgins Project
Bandit Project
Planetwork
Internet Society
CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
Paypal
Booz Allen Hamilton
Apple
Burton Group
Hewlett Packared
International Business Machines
Intuit
LexisNexis
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Nokia Siemens Networks
NRI
Oracle
Orange
Rackspace
Radiant Logic
Sony Ericsson
The MITRE Corporation
Tucows Inc
VeriSign, Inc.
Vodafone Group R &D
Alcatel-Lucent
Acxiom Identity Solutions
Acxiom Research
Equifax
LinkedIn
Amazon
SMALL COMPANY
SPONSORS
FuGen Solutions
OUNO
Rel-ID
Poken
Vidoop
Chimp
Authentrus
Sxip
ClaimID
IETF
W3C
OASIS
SMALL COMPANY
PATICIPANTS
Ångströ
Digg, Inc.
Privo
Expensify
FamilySearch.org
FreshBooks
Gigya
Gluu
Janrain
Kynetx
NetMesh Inc.
Protiviti
Socialtext
TriCipher, Inc.
Trusted-ID
Wave Systems
Six Apart
NONPROFIT
PARTICIPANTS
Center for Democracy and
Technology
DataPortability Project
IdM Network Netherlands
OCLC
Open Forum Foundation
World Economic Forum
UNIVERSITY PARTICIPANTS
Goldsmiths, University of London
Newcastle University
Stanford University
GOVERNMENT PARTICIPANTS
Office of the Chief Informaiton Office,
Province of British Columbia
and more...
Lots of Open Standards
XRI/XDI
SAML
Information
Cards
I founded this in 2010
Goal connect starutps around the world building tools for
individual collect manage and get value from their personal
data along with fostering ethical data markets.
Privacy: Increasingly Complex as
Volumes of Personal Data Grow
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Source: World Economic Forum, “Rethinking Personal Data: Strengthening Trust,”
The Leola Group
2014
I founded
NSTIC
Where did we meet?
2009
10. Build a cybersecurity-based
identity management vision and
strategy that addresses privacy
and civil liberties interests,
leveraging privacy-enhancing
technologies for the Nation.
Table 2: NEAR-TERM ACTION PLAN
2009
13. Implement, for high-value
activities (e.g., the Smart Grid),
an opt-in array of interoperable
identity management systems
to build trust for online
transactions and to enhance
privacy.
Table 3: MID-TERM ACTION PLAN
Says we must maintain anonymity
& pseudonymity in cyberspace
Called for in President’s Cyberspace Policy Review (May 2009):
a “cybersecurity focused identity management vision and
strategy…that addresses privacy and civil-liberties interests,
leveraging privacy-enhancing technologies for the nation.”
Guiding Principles
–Privacy-Enhancing and Voluntary
–Secure and Resilient
–Interoperable
–Cost-Effective and Easy To Use
NSTIC calls for an Identity Ecosystem,
“an online environment where individuals
and organizations will be able to trust each other
because they follow agreed upon standards to obtain
and authenticate their digital identities.”
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What is NSTIC?
Where is this / Where are we?
CREEPY NSA (and others) SPYING
CREEPY NSA (and others) SPYING
Rules for Lawful Intercept
Where is this / Where are we?
CREEPY NSA (and others) SPYING
Rules for Lawful Intercept
IN THIS BIGYELLOW BOX
Where is this / Where are we?
CREEPY NSA (and others) SPYING
Rules for Lawful Intercept
NORMATIVE RULES
BUSINESS PRACTICES
TECHNOLOGIES
FOR EVERY DAY LIFE
Business - Business
Business - Consumer
Business - Government
Citizen/Person - Gov
Where is this / Where are we?
CREEPY NSA (and others) SPYING
Rules for Lawful Intercept
NORMATIVE RULES
BUSINESS PRACTICES
TECHNOLOGIES
FOR EVERY DAY LIFE
Business - Business
Business - Consumer
Business - Government
Citizen/Person - Gov
Where is this / Where are we?
What does the IDESG do:
It is proceeding to define how EVERYONE will be able to express
their identity online in the future.  It is to answer questions like: 
* How can people define their own names, gender identity, race, other  
identifying information?
* Will we retain the right to use "nicknames"/pseudonyms?
* Will we be able to speak anonymously online?  
The strategy document "says" we should be able to do so but this
institution will define HOW the ecosystem actually built. Only if we are
there to ensure our freedoms online will they be retained. 
* What are the methods of verification
       of enrollment (how you get into the system) what methods of     
            authentication (passwords or device ID or biometrics)?
As the White House announcement details below, today [April 2014]
marked the release of the Cybersecurity Framework crafted by NIST –
with input from many stakeholders – in response to President Obama’s
Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity issued
one year ago. 
 
NSTIC is not discussed in the framework itself – but both it and
the IDESG figure prominently in the Roadmap that was
released as a companion to the Framework.  The Roadmap
highlights authentication as the first of nine different, high-
priority “areas of improvement” that need to be addressed
through future collaboration with particular sectors and
standards-developing organizations.  
The inadequacy of passwords for authentication was a key driver behind
the 2011 issuance of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in
Cyberspace (NSTIC), which calls upon the private sector to collaborate
on development of an Identity Ecosystem that raises the level of trust
associated with the identities of individuals, organizations, networks,
services, and devices online. 
The results of this
W
ILL BECOME
POLICY
NSTIC is focused on consumer use cases, but the
standards and policies that emerge from the privately-led
Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) established to
support the NSTIC – as well as new authentication solutions
that emerge from NSTIC pilots – can inform advances in
authentication for critical infrastructure as well.
NIST will focus in these areas:
·         Continue to support the development of better identity
and authentication solutions through NSTIC pilots, as well
as an active partnership with the IDESG;
·         Support and participate in identity and authentication
standards activities, seeking to advance a more complete
set of standards to promote security and interoperability; this
will include standards development work to address gaps
that may emerge from new approaches in the NSTIC pilots
The results of this
W
ILL BECOME
POLICY
The BIG IDEA behind NSTIC IS NOT DUMB
+
Multi-Factor
Authentication
Authentication is NOT:
Enrollment or
IdentityVerification
You need strong multi-factor
authentication for
pseudonyms too.
The BIG IDEA behind NSTIC IS NOT DUMB
Text
Text
50
states
3,144
counties
Text
50
states
3,144
counties
19,355
incorporated places
50
states
Lots of Government Entities in the US - who’s job it is
to interact with citizens and provide services.
Each Government agency could issue a “strong” mutli-
factor ID that included verification on enrollment.
Cost $12-$120 per person - per year to manage ID
This would be a National ID
People get services from the private sector with ID.
People get services from the private sector with ID.
Gov ID for employees, contractors under HSPD12 - 12million
How can they use this ID at their private sector accounts?
A tone of liability
& “trust” issues
A tone of liability
& “trust” issues
NSTIC
NSTICTRUST
FRAMEWORKS
“TRUST”
Frameworks
TECHNOLOGY
LEGAL/POLICY
TECHNOLOGY
LEGAL/POLICY
TECHNOLOGYLEGAL/POLICY
TRUST FRAMEWORK
TRUST FRAMEWORK
We must create Legal/Policy - Tech
that will underlies what should
become an Ecosystem..
We need lots of different parties
at the table to create them.
We should have an “open” mutli-
stakeholder process to figure it out.
Private sector will lead the effort
• Not a government-run identity program
• Private sector is in the best position to drive
technologies and solutions…
• …and ensure the Identity Ecosystem offers improved
online trust and better customer experiences
Federal government will provide support
• Help develop a private-sector led governance model
• Facilitate and lead development of interoperable
standards
• Provide clarity on national policy and legal framework
around liability and privacy
• Fund pilots to stimulate the marketplace
• Act as an early adopter to stimulate demand 70
What does NSTIC call for?
NPO
Jeremy
Grant
Program Office Announced
inside: National Institute of Standards
under: Department of Commerce
Friday, January 7, 2011
NPO Hires a STAFF
David Temoshuck
Naomi Lefkovitz
James “Jim” Sheire
Michael “Mike” Garcia
NPO ACTION: Notice of Inquiry.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (Department) is conducting a comprehensive
review of governance models for a governance body to administer the
processes for policy and standards adoption for the Identity Ecosystem
Framework in accordance with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
(NSTIC or “Strategy”).
The Strategy refers to this governance body as the “steering group.” The
Department seeks public comment from all stakeholders, including the commercial, academic and
civil society sectors, and consumer and privacy advocates on potential models, in the form of
recommendations and key assumptions in the formation and structure of the steering group. The
Department seeks to learn and understand approaches for:
1) the structure and functions of a persistent and sustainable private
sector-led steering group and
2) the initial establishment of the steering group. This Notice specifically seeks
comment on the structures and processes for Identity Ecosystem governance. This Notice does
not solicit comments or advice on the policies that will be chosen by the steering group or specific
issues such as accreditation or trustmark schemes, which will be considered by the steering group
at a later date. Responses to this Notice will serve only as input for a Departmental report of
government recommendations for establishing the NSTIC steering group.
NPONPO Workshops
Governance
Privacy
Technology
July 2011
May 2011
with IIW
Oct 2011
NPO April 2011 at chamber of commerce
NPO
Charter
“Committees” by
Immaculate Conception
Bylaws
NPO
Charter
“Committees” by
Immaculate Conception
Bylaws
The First Plenary meeting was August 2012
NPO
a complete 2 year
work PLAN!
THE Identity Ecosystem
Steering Group STRUCTURENPO
THE SECRETARIAT
Put out a Bid
and then hired
private company
to run Secretariat
The Plenary
NPO THE IDESG STRUCTURE
THE SECRETARIAT
Any person and any organization in the world
(yes the world) can sign up to be a part of making
the Identity Ecosystem Framework
The Plenary
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
You pick a stakeholder category
• Privacy Advocate
• Small Business - Entrepreneur
• Regulated Industries
• Relying Party
• etc...there are 14
The Plenary
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
Each Stakeholder Group elects
a member of the management council.
The Plenary
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
THATS
“Me”
I represent small businesses
and entrepreneurs.
The Plenary
Chair
Management
Council
Vice-Chair
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
Chair
Management
Council
Vice-Chair Vice-Chair
Plenary
Chair
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
The first multi-day face to face
meeting was 18 months
after we were first elected.
The management council
meets every 2 weeks on
the phone.
The Plenary
Chair
Management
Council
Vice-Chair
Vice-Chair
Plenary
Chair
PRIVACY
Security Standards
Trust
Framework
Trust Mark
Standards
Int’l
Policy
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
Committees are where
all the work happens.
The NPO defined all the
committees BEFORE the
management council ever met.
The Plenary
Chair
Management
Council
Vice-Chair
Vice-Chair
Plenary
Chair
PRIVACY
Security Standards
Trust
Framework
Trust Mark
Standards
Int’l
Policy
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
They meet in a “chairs call”
every 2 weeks.
The committees
elect chairs
The Plenary
Chair
Management
Council
Vice-Chair
Vice-Chair
Plenary
Chair
PRIVACY
Security Standards
Trust
Framework
Trust Mark
Standards
Int’l
Policy
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
NYM
ISSUES?
Aestetix tried to bring
Nym Issues Committee
forward...its still in limbo.
The Plenary
Chair
Management
Council
Vice-Chair
Vice-Chair
Plenary
Chair
NPO
THE SECRETARIAT
Management
Council
Sub-Committees
The Plenary
NPO THE IDESG STRUCTURE
THE SECRETARIAT
Any person and any organization in the world
(yes the world) can sign up to be a part of making
the Identity Ecosystem Framework
HOW MANY PEOPLE are active in IDESG?
Under 100!
A difference can be made with this institution
with not that many people showing up.
The Plenary
NPO THE IDESG STRUCTURE
THE SECRETARIAT
They have Face to Face meetings once a quarter.
+ they are all broadcast live.
NPO
The
Chair
Vice-
Vice-
PlePRI
Sec Stan
Trust
Stan
In
Pol Communications:
30 Mailing lists
No Wiki
Document Repository
Drupal Site
No clear vision from management council
about what we are actually supposed to do.
10+ Committees
& Sub-Committees
The
Ch
Vi Vi
PlPR
Se St
Trus
St
I P
THE SECRETARIAT
NPO
IDENTITY ECOSYSTEM
STEERING GROUP
Year 1
Pilots
Year 2
Pilots
Year3
Pilots ?
• Daon, Inc.
• The American Association of Motor
Vehicle Administrators
• Criterion Systems
• Resilient Network Systems, Inc.
• University Corporation for
Advanced Internet Development
• Transglobal Secure
Collaboration Participation
• Georgia Tech Research Institute
• Exponent
• ID.me, Inc.
• Privacy Vaults Online, Inc.
NPO
The
Chair
Vice-
Vice-
PlePRI
Sec Stan
Trust
Stan
In
Pol
BIG ISSUES:
DIVERSITY - INCLUSION
TRUST FRAMEWORK CREATION
* NAMING ISSUES
REASONABLE PROCESS for CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT
The Importance of Diversity & Inclusion in the
NSTIC
National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
IDESG
Identity Ecosystem Steering Group
by Kaliya “Identity Woman” Hamlin
Management Council Member for Small Business and Entrepreneur Stakeholder Group
October 18, 2013 - Boston Plenary
Presentation shared remotely in New Business Section
This was at close of plenary and was invited after Kaliya raised the issue of the lack
of diverse participants in producing the outcomes of Security Committee was
reviewing. Told it was out of scope of the committee to address the issue and it should
be brought to end of day chairs debrief.
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CensusViewer US 2010 Census Latino Population as a heatmap by census
tract.
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Anti-Racist Organizations in the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:
Anti-racist_organizations_in_the_United_States
Ethnic & Racial
Minorities in US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Category:Ethnic_groups_in_the_Unite
d_States
Asian American
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Asian_American
Lists of US Cities with non-white majority populations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_U.S._cities_with_non-white_majority_populations