Identity Future

A popular document from March of 2005 which most professionals dealing with identity management are familiar with is Kim Cameron’s: The Laws Of Identity.

From the summary:

Understand the dynamics causing digital identity systems to succeed or fail in various contexts, expressed as the Laws of Identity. Together these laws define a unifying identity metasystem that can offer the Internet the identity layer it needs

It also contains some “words that allow dialogue”, including a definition of digital identity:

We will begin by defining a digital identity as a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject. We ask the reader to let us define what we mean by a digital subject and a set of claims before examining this further.

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Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) Version 2.0 was ratified today as an OASIS standard.

The OASIS international standards consortium today announced that its members have approved the Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) version 2.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. SPML provides an XML-based framework for managing the allocation of system resources within and between organizations. Encompassing the entire life-cycle management of resources, SPML defines the provisioning of digital services such as user accounts and access privileges on systems, networks and applications, as well as non-digital or physical resources such as cell phones and credit cards.
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The SPML v2.0 OASIS Standard offers enhanced functionality as well as a new profile that lets users and other objects be manipulated more easily. Additional features include improved password management, user suspension capabilities, and user attribute schema discovery.

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Josh Porter and Alex Barnett got Dick Hardt and Kim Cameron on the line to talk about Identity Management. The result is available as a podcast.

Josh and Alex are big on the attention economy and social software, so they’re asking questions about how IdM works in those contexts. Most people thinking about IdM today seem to be thinking about its uses in the enterprise or in education, but when I say identity management is the next big thing, I mean it in the social context that Josh and Alex are rooted in.

Alex’s notes:

• What are the biggest problems we need to solve for online identity?
   
• The paradox of silos and a single solution
   
• The Laws of Identity and the Sxip protocols
   
• Consistent user experience
   
• Read / Write identity and Attention Data
   
• Separating identity establishment & management and attention & transactional data management
   
• Trading attention data
   
• Attention data and reputational data
   
• Sxore and Blog comment spam and trackbacks are an identity problem
   
• Attention data maintenance
   
• Personally Identifying Information - PII data maintenance
   
• How would ecommerce sites make use of Attention data?
   
• Enterprise-level privacy
   
• Haven’t already we lost our privacy?
   

[cross posted from MaisonBisson.com]

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In a recent report from Research & Consultancy Outsourcing Services (RNCOS) titled “Identity Management Services - A Market Perspective“:

Year 2005 saw an unexpected rise in the incidents of identity theft that stimulated the rapid inclusion of Identity Management Solutions in industries.

In spite of high infrastructure cost, reluctance to adopt a new technology and nonexistence of government support the market for identity management is growing swiftly.

As per industry experts, the market for provisioning, data validation, merged identity solutions and full suites has already reached above $1.2 million. With an average annual growth rate of 2.3 times, it is further estimated to grow above $8.5 billion by the year 2008.

However, factors such as regulatory compliance, higher productivity, improved safety and lower administrative costs might pull businesses towards the Identity Management Solutions, vendors with a standard clientele can only ensure proper implementation of these solutions.

This lends further credibility to statements that identity management is the next big thing.

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