One Day LEFT for Early Registration

Chirs Messina highlighted this in a blog post yesturday – there is only one day left for early registration for IIW. He does a great job of summarizing the value:

The event started in 2005 and has become a staple of the identity community over the past several years, contributing to the emergence of technologies like OpenID and OAuth.

This year’s event promises to continue the conversations begun at the first and second OpenID Design Summits, and will, for the first time, delve into some of the activity streams work with which I’ve been engaged for over a year now.

Through April 1, you can register to receive the early bird rate.

Considering the caliber of folks who will be in attendance and the importance of the work that gets done there, IIW is definitely an event worth attending!

Significant work has also been done with the Information Card and Selector technologies – the Open Source Identity Systems group has been doing interop work at IIW for years.

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Internet Identity Workshop, the Identity Geekfest

This is a guest post from Eran Hammer-Lahav (published on his blog here too). He is frequent contributor to OAuth, Discovery, XRD, and other emerging community-driven specifications and standards, and currently working as Yahoo!’s Director of Standards Development.

There are few events more productive than Internet Identity Workshop.

And few that I enjoy quite so much. I’m an engineer at heart, even though these I play a pseudo-lawyer and write specifications. While I enjoy the meta conversations about the social web, I love talking code. The real thing, like working with a group of people on a new XML schema using a whiteboard, or walking through use cases and designing protocols. Ultra-geek stuff.

IIW, now in its 5th year is the central event for the identity community which includes OAuth, OpenID, XRD, Discovery, as well as the political and social conversations about them. It has been the place where OAuth Discovery was first discussed and shaped, where LRDD was presented and got its initial momentum, where XRDS turned into XRD, and where Yadis and many other OpenID ideas and proposals came from. And this is just the stuff I obsess about.

The event is an unconference like BarCamp, where the participants set the agenda, and what you have to say is as important as what you came to listen to and learn from. If you care about this space, and find this blog interesting, IIW is a must.

The next event, IIW2009A (there are two a year, usually May and December), is May 18-20, 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. With everything going on in the identity space, it promises to be a great and productive event, even more than past years. I will be there presenting the latest specifications, ideas, and developments in OAuth, Discovery, XRD, etc. and plan to get some work done.

For more information, visit the event site, and if you register by April 1st, the fees are greatly reduced. And don’t forget to come and say hello.