Identity Future

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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update 11 April 2006: we’re told this event has been cancelled.

New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T) is hosting an event titled Who Am I and How Do You Know For Sure? Identity Management in a Web 2.0 World on Thursday, 20 April 2006 at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

How many times a day do you enter usernames and passwords?
How do you keep track of them all?
How often do you transfer private personal, financial or company data over the web?
How secure do you feel about it?
How well does your organization protect the private information of your consumers?
How much of your identity is “out there” for the taking?
How many times do you ask your consumers to identify themselves each time they use your services?
Do you wish there was a better way?

So do Ben Adida, Dick Hardt and Paul Trevithick­ and they’re working on it. Join the New England chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (NEASIS&T) for an invigorating day with three leading innovators at the forefront of identity and security in today’s giddy environment of promiscuous information exchange over the Web. You will learn what the technological, practical and social challenges are for individuals and organizations in managing logins and the transfer of sensitive data over the web. You will get a sense of the range of initiatives exploring solutions and what the barriers are. You will hear from an academic studying cryptography and the semantic web as they apply to public policy issues like voting and health records (Adida). You will hear from a vendor developing solutions for organizations and individuals (Hardt). And you will hear about efforts to develop open source technology to give users more control over their online identity, profile and relationship information (Trevithick).

NEASIS&T is pleased to present another timely program of leading speakers and panel discussion. Join us!

Dick Hardt’s fame in the identity management world skyrocketed with the popularity of uniquely engaging presentation style. Paul Trevithick is growing famous for his work with Higgins.

Additional information about this event is available on the NEASIS&T website.

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