IIW Registration can be found on Eventbrite.

Monday October 22nd all with details still to come:

• OpenID Summit

• Federated Social Web NOTE MOVED TO FRIDAY!

• VRM Meetup

Friday October 26th:

• Federated Social Web Summit 

Later in the Fall we are collaborating with some events:

• First Tuesday of the Month in London, Tony Fish is hosting 1/2 day Unconferneces about identity and Personal Data.

• Toronto, Canada – November 18-19.
• Netherlands – Identity.Next – November 20-21

For those who worked closely with Bob this loss is absolutely devastating both personally and professionally. Those who interacted with him once in a while will miss his presence. Those who did know him will experience his gifts and contributions transmitted through those who did.

You can see the tribute page for Bob here on the Internet2 wiki.

For this coming IIW #15 we are going to have a Hawaiian shirt day on Wednesday to honor his life and his contribution to our community.

Joining forces are us – Kantara Initiative and OASIS IDTrust. Join us to talk about all things identity – user-centric, user-driven, enterprise, customer and government.

The agenda/notes from last year can be seen here.
The event itself is run IIW style – where the agenda is created in the morning (however we collect ideas as people register and post them on the wiki).

We expect given recent announcements that NSTIC will be a big topic of conversation.

Hosted at the NIH Campus, Bethesda MD, Natcher Building
The Natcher Building is on the Red Line - Medical Center stop.  The NIH Visitor Center is right off the escalator and Natcher Building/Conference Center  is right next  to the Visitor Center.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

The main IIW conference convenes semi-annually in California with a focus on user-centric digital identity facilitating cross industry collaboration between large and small companies and across all major standards organizations and between various industries.

The community is engaged in solving the technical challenges of how people can manage their own identity and data across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with. We also work on trying to address social and legal issues that arise with these new tools and innovation in business models for a healthy overall ecosystem.

The event is unique because the agenda is created live the day of the event. As people register solicit ideas for sessions and post them on a wiki. You can also see who has registered listed on the registration site.  You can also see the book of proceedings from the last Satellite in DC, ID Collaboration Day IIW12 [link] & IIW13 [link]

The 13th IIW held this past October was the largest thus far with over 300 in attendance.  It included two day’s of focus one around NSTIC (National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace) and the other called Yukon (You-Con) around people and their data, in particular the business opportunities that emerge around this.

We host Satellite events in various locations to supplement our main semi-annual event. In the fall of 2010 we hosted an IIW in DC and London.  We are returning to DC this January because of repeated community requests to do so. You should also be aware we co-produce ID Collaboration Day on the Monday Prior to RSA in San Francisco.

People who should attend this event include:

• Systems Developers from Financial Services and Healthcare Sectors
• Telecommunications Company Representatives
• Academics in the Social Sciences
• Privacy officers
• Government Personnel involved in Information Systems Development and Procurement
• Individuals involved in developing Policy Practices and Procedures for Identity Management and Security Plans
• Individuals issuing and managing Identity Credentials for Federal Employees and their Contractors
• Individuals responsible for architecting and implementing technology solutions to federate identity for policy development for implementation
• Individuals responsible for policy development and implementation
• Privacy and Security Architects
• American Bar Association people
• HR Manages from any Sector
• Application Architects
• Research Scientists
• Identity Evangelists
• ID Program Managers
• User Experience Designers
• Social Web Engineers
• Tech Program Managers and Product Planners
• Identity Solution Provicers
• Open Web Advocates
• Analysts
• Hackers

More About IIW

Unlike other identity conferences, IIW’s focus is on the use of identity management approaches based on open standards that are privacy protecting. It is a unique blend of technology and policy discussions where everyone from a diverse range of projects doing the real-work of making this vision happen, gather and work intensively. It is the best place to meet and participate with all the key people and projects going on in the field.

The event has a unique format – the agenda is created live the day of the event.  This allows for the discussion of key issues, projects and a lot of interactive opportunities with key industry leaders. You can see the growing list of who is attending at the bottom of this announcement.

How does it work?

After the brief introduction on the first day, there are no formal presentations, no keynotes and no panels. After introductions we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, with a facilitator guiding the process attendees create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone there. All are welcome to put forward presentations and propose conversations.

We do this in part because the field is moving so rapidly that it doesn’t make sense to predetermine the presentation schedule months before the event. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion to learn and contribute to the event that will make it.

The event compiles a book of proceedings with all the notes from the conference.  Here are the proceedings from the previous Satelite in DC [link], IIW13, IIW12, IIW11, IIW10…and more from here [link to main IIW page] BTW these three documents are your key to convincing your employer that this event will be valuable.

Conference fee covers all meeting meals – lunch dinner and dinner Tuesday evening.

Government Employees or Corporate Employees- please let us know if you need any additional information in order to register and attend!

We look forward to seeing you in January!

EAST COAST
* IIW-Satellite in DC – January 17th, at NIH

Pre-RSA
ID Collaboraiton Day  (Identity Commons/IIW, Kantara Initiative & OASIS IDTrust)
February 27th, 2012 Location TBD in San Francisco

AUSTRALIA
Week of March 20th still in the planning phase

IIW – 14
May 1-3 in Mountain View

Karaoke Songbook by Title (updated 11-2)

Karaoke Songbook by Artist (updated 11-2)

• Sharing one’s latest photography and new camera in the late night conversations in the HiFi lounge at the Avante.
• sharing a video of the band we sing in playing with a few folks on one’s phone at dinner
• wearing to dinner the coolest new shirt we have sewn
• sketching and drawing while in conference sessions

This IIW we are bringing back an old tradition and beginning a new one to support both musical, visual artists and makers sharing.

Musical Talent: Karaoke is BACK! for end of the evening on Wednesday – So start writing your identity lyrics now (check out the video below for Bohemian Rhapsody in the key of ID). You can also bring musical instruments or your own voice and just sing for us

Visual/Physical Artists: Revolving Slide Show playing on a wall of IIW for Photography, Visual Artists and Makers to share their work.

We invite you to share your photography & visual art/things you’ve made with the whole community.  This might also include photos from past IIWs.

Please submit a 8 x 10 @72dpi JPEG version of your art for display OR Links to photos.

You can:

1. Bring them to the Notes Collection Center on a USB Key
2. Send them ahead of time via e-mail: iiwnotes@gmail.com

Start WRITING Your Lyrics now! & Recruiting your Choirs!

We might even have a contest for most original lyrics

Here are some past Lyrics to inspire you….

This is the classic Very Very Frightening Indeed! Bohemian Rhaps-ID in the Key of ID from IIW #3 – 2006B

Midnight at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(original lyrics here)

Midnight at OASIS
Send your SAML to bed
Touching all of the bases
Graces schedules up ahead
Madsen‘s working the website
Formatting’s gone bust
Let’s just separate MAY, SHOULD,
SHALL NOT, RECOMMEND, and MUST

Come on, Kavi is our friend
It’ll upload the spec
Come on till the ballot ends
Till the ballot ends
You don’t have to answer
You can just abstain
Mary‘s tally keeper
Deeper, to get us through the week.

 

Bohemian Rhapsody in the key of ID

Bohemian Identity

a parody of Bohemian Rhapsody by Eve Maler, Laurie Rae, Peter Tapling, Derek Fluker, Bill Johnson, and Wes Kussmaul, with apologies to the late great Freddie Mercury

(Written on 4 December 2006 and performed on 5 December 2006 at the Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View, CA. Creative Commons license: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.)

Is this the real life, or a directory
Caught in the OSIS, no escape from identity
Open your I-D to be spied and see
I’m just an agent, and I’m an entity
Because I ask who am, I to you, I don’t care, I thought you knew
Any way the claim flows doesn’t really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man, his name is password hell, and he’s not encrypted well
Drama from websites outdone, Web 2 dot 0 had blown them all away
Passport, ooh, didn’t mean to make us cry
If my session’s gone away this time tomorrow
Single off, single on, as if nothing really matters

Login, the time has come, time to prove what’s mine is mine, fingers aching all the time
Logout everybody, I’ve got to go, when I broke that seventh law I faced the truth
Mama ooh (any way the claim flows), I must now rely, on attributes not seen before at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me
Authorizer (authorizer), authorizer (authorizer)
Authorizer LID  O-pen I-D
I’m just a token nobody knows me
He’s just a token from a weak authority
Spare him his life from anonymity
Single off, single on, will you authorize
Bismillah! No, we will not authorize (authorize)
Bismillah! No, we will not authorize (authorize)
Bismillah! No, we will not authorize (authorize)
Will not authorize (authorize)
Will not authorize (authorize)
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia authorize
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

So you think SAML2 can solve all your use cases
Let me SXIP in and OpenID some CardSpaces
Oh baby, can’t do this to me baby
Just gotta sign out, just gotta sign right outta here

But it really matters, AuthN and authZ,
Yes it really matters, it’s all that really matters  I-D

Any way the claim flows

We have updated the home page to reflect those changes and themes.

We are having an NSTIC focused Day Wednesday and a Yukon Day (focused on business models around personal data) Thursday.

Early Registration is Open until Friday – so get your tickets now before prices rise.

The Internet Identity Workshop (the “IIW”) offers attorneys an opportunity to be involved first hand in discussions with representatives of companies, government entities and community groups working to develop an “identity” layer for the internet (and related networked data and information systems).

The identity layer can help to provide legal “scaffolding” for the exponentially growing, and increasingly valuable, data and information “pile” that does not currently enjoy the benefits of a comprehensive legal structure.

In order to further normalize and regularize the trillions of identity/attribute-dependent interactions that occur daily (aggregating email, social networking, search, and voice communications) across multiple platforms, in different industries and different legal jurisdictions, the development of standardized technology tools and legal rules is critical to the development of systems that handle information for the three main user groups.  These include those stakeholders in commercial markets, social communities and political governance structures that use networked information

IIW is one place that the discussion is taking place among technologists, policy and management folks and attorneys; working together to build data/identity infrastructure to serve these emerging needs.

Why is an identity layer important to lawyers?

Even though “identity” is not taught as a separate subject in law school, and law firms don’t  yet maintain “identity law” groups, the identity of individuals, legal persons (such as corporations, LLCs, etc.) and their representatives, and property (both tangible and intangible) is tightly bound up with nearly every concept in law.  Examples include the obvious “signature” issues, but also a host of other evidence issues, liability issues, ownership and possession issues, legal capacity, civil liberties, legal duties and a variety of other issues.

Issues of “identity” are sufficiently important that formalized legal processes and documentation protocols have been developed over centuries to memorialize and document “identity” for traditional, offline interactions and commercial transactions.

What has changed?

The internet mediates interactions and commercial transactions between remote parties by carrying data that provides relevant information that has value to such parties in those settings.  Participants in such interactions and commercial transactions rely on the veracity, reliability and predictability of that online intermediation as a substitute for the traditional cues (including formal legal identity processes) upon which they have come to depend, and around which they have structured their respective commercial, governmental and social practices, but which are not available “online.”

The quality of the online intermediation offered by the combined efforts of the technology, and the individuals and the institutions that “host” online interactions has legal implications for both the interaction participants and for the online “inter-mediators.”

What is missing?

Unfortunately, there is currently no comprehensive, internet-scale set of standardized rules and laws to give users and providers of online data “inter-mediation” services guidance as to their respective duties relating to the handling of data and information.  The reason for the “gap” is that, due to networking and processing advances, data and information (including “personal information” and other identity-related information) has very rapidly become significantly more valuable throughout the economy

Groups typically create formal laws to address transactions in things that they value (monetary and otherwise).  The pace of technology change (and in particular those technologies that enable the networking of devices that collect and process data) has created a situation where a increasingly valuable asset, networked data, has value, but its users (including both service providers and individual and business users) suffer the consequences of an underdeveloped legal structure for managing that resource.

The role of law in managing commonly-used data resources

Because the resource is broadly networked, it is available to a variety of different users, each of which desires to access the resource for typically legal and appropriate purposes.  Sometimes, however, different users’ interests can come into conflict.  In these situations it can be helpful (and is likely necessary) to establish formal legal rules to document the balancing and resolution of the parties’ respective interests.  This documentation can “normalize” the use of the resource to the benefit of all users.

From the legal perspective, the current challenges of “privacy,” “security,” and “un certain liability” can all be viewed as symptoms of an under-developed legal structure for data and information.    Those symptoms can be alleviated by developing the legal structure through standard contracts and supportive laws to structure mutual, enforceable legal rights and duties.

Communities, Markets, and Governance Structures are three names for “network effect”

The under-developed legal structure reflects a classic “pre-market” situation.  The underdeveloped markets include related markets for data, data rights and data transfer (communication) services.  The development of the “market” is not just about commercialization, it is more broadly about standardizing the rules of “exchange and transfer” of data, which will help to address the needs of users in the social and governmental contexts as well.

The legal structures for the “market” are, of course, not entirely underdeveloped.  There is a robust advertising market that relies on the data resource.   In addition, laws in several jurisdictions establish certain duties for data handlers and online transaction “inter-mediators,” which affect the manner in which selected stakeholders in those markets handle data.

Importantly, these initial areas of greater development demonstrate the potential value of networked data.  In addition, the monetization of that value (currently through advertising and other uses) helps to fund innovation and, much like advertising on network television, pays for the “programming;” which in the case of the internet is a host of no-additional charge services.

Notwithstanding the mature state of existing markets, none of the legal structures currently in place (whether contractual or statutory) has been directed toward offering comprehensive solutions that balance the interests of all parties involved in those transactions into a sustainable, reliable, predictable and interoperable data infrastructure.

What are the benefits of standardized legal infrastructure

Standardized, normalized, reliable identity functionality will offer greater certainty to internet stakeholders whether they are using the common pooled information resource for commercial purposes in markets, in social setting with online communities or in political contexts with online governance structures.

Once that reliable identity layer is established, it can support the identification and authorization aspects of a variety of online and offline transactions that depend on the internet.  In this way, it can serve as the scalable, interoperable, infrastructure; a virtual  “information infrastructure” for the exponentially increasing “pile” of intangible assets currently referred to as “data.”

Is the identity layer just about individuals?

The identity layer can function to provide certainty about the identity of other individuals, entities and even things that are increasingly connected to one another online.  Businesses, governments and individuals depend on reliable, predictable methods to confirm identity.  The issue arises in any context where an agency or other representative relationship is present (including employment settings, fiduciary arrangements, trusts, financial transactions, etc.).  A very substantial part of both transactional, litigation and regulatory practices are dependent on how systems support and document identity.  Identity issues are relevant in the construction and enforcement of legal duties, the evaluation of breaches, issues of causation and ultimate liability for damages.

The “un-conference” format

The attendee-guided format, while initially unfamiliar to those used to standard “classroom” CLEs, has the advantage of allowing the “experts” in attendance from various fields to work together to dynamically set the agenda based on the latest developments affecting the area.  Discussions are often influenced by industry news released during the meetings.

The open format helps to expose attendees to issues and solutions from various related sub-fields of legal, policy, management and technology.  That broad exposure typically provides attendees with greater insight into solutions for the challenges that they face back at the office and more energized to explore the legal implications of this burgeoning market.  Most attendees watch their in-box for the invitation to the next IIW.

IIW has always been a development workshop. It’s where people working on problems and opportunities get together and move things forward. In most cases it’s about what happens before those ideas turn into a startup pitch. Some of the work is purely creative. Some of it shakes down half-baked work. Some of it is collaboration between new development efforts and established companies and development communities. Some of it is working out problems between competing or converging development projects that wouldn’t be talking if they weren’t in the same small rooms with tough questions from users and investors — and a whiteboard. All the sessions are breakouts. No speakers or panels. The participants suggest and choose every topic.

This IIW, our twelfth (we do two per year) we are inviting VCs for the first time. One reason is that we want investment heads at our tables. Another is to see how it goes when VCs get to see work that’s pre-angel and pre-first-round. (Or, in some cases, post-both.)

Personal Data Control and Leverage is the theme for this day. That’s where the individual controls and drives the use of their own data, and data about them held by other parties. This isn’t social. It’s personal. The development areas here are personal data stores (PDSes) and data sharing, VRM (vendor relationship management — the customer-side counterpart of CRM), and the whole emerging personal data ecosystem, which happens to have shown up first at earlier IIWs.

REGISTRATION

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on “user-centric identity” and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with. We also work on trying to address social and legal issues that arise with these new tools. Emerging themes include: Trust Frameworks, the next generation of OpenID -> Connect, Identity in the Browser or Active Clients, Personal Data and a new Ecosystem around data aggregated and controlled by end users, managing Identity in the Cloud, the Federated Social Web and emerging standards & code for that along with Vendor Relationship Management.

Something New: IIW + Yukon: One of the longtime themes of IIW is how identity and personal data intersect. Many important discussions about Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) have also taken place at IIW. In recognition of how personal data and identity are intertwined, the third day of the IIW, May 5, will be designated “IIW + Yukon” and will stress the emerging personal data economy. The primary theme will be personal data control and leverage, where the individual controls and drives the use of their own data, and data about them held by other parties.

This isn’t social. It’s personal. This day you can expext open-space style discussions of personal data stores (PDS), PDS ecosystems, and VRM. One purpose of Yukon is to start to focus on business models and value propositions, so we will specifically be reaching out to angels and VC’s who are intersted in personal data economy plays and inviting them to attend.

A Warm Up Event: STLPartners/Telco 2.0 – New Digital Economics Personal Data Ecosystem Workshop April 7th is happening 1 month before IIW it is a warmup event – helping make connections to the Telecommunications space. Their European event will be in London the week after IIW.

A follow-up event: Digital Death Day, May 6th.

Preceding event OpenID Summit on May 2nd.

IIW is the place where everyone from a diverse range of projects doing the real work of making this vision happen gathers and works intensively for three days. It is the best place to meet and participate with all the key people and projects! As a community we have been exploring these kinds of questions:

How are social networking sites and social media tools applying user-centric identity?
What are the open standards to make it work? (identity and semantic)
What are technical implementations of those standards?
How do different standards and technical implementations interoperate?
What are the new social norms and legal constructs needed to make it work?
What tools are needed to make it usably secure for end-users?
What does user-centric identity mean for enterprises?
What are the businesses cases / models that drive all this?

Topics already proposed can be seen on the wiki. As people register they are asked to share their ideas. Anyone at the workshop can propose a topic/session.

How does it work?
After the brief introduction on the first day there are no formal presentations, no keynotes, no panels. We make the schedule when we are face to face the first day of the conference. We do this in part because the field is moving so rapidly that we your organizing team are in no position to know what needs to be talked about. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion to learn and contribute to the event that will make it.

Schedule
The agenda will be created live each day by attendees present at the opening of the day.
Tuesday Day 1 will begin at 9am with introduction/orientation followed by Agenda Creation. There will be 5 working sessions. Dinner is included and served at a local restaurant.

Wednesday Day 2 will have agenda creation beginning at 9:00. There will be 5 working sessions and a demo hour after lunch. Dinner is included and served at a local restaurant.

Thursday Day 3 will have agenda creation begin at 9:00. There will be 5 working sessions and we will end by 4pm.

There is a related but different event following on Friday – Digital Death Day: What happens to your data after you die? (and other questions of online life after death.

Hotels
The Hotel Avante has given IIW as special rate and offers free shuttle service to the Computer History Museum where IIW is held.

There are a few related events:

STLPartners/Telco 2.0 – New Digital Economics Personal Data Ecosystem Workshop April 7th. Happening 1 month before IIW it is a warmup event – helping make connections to the Telecommunications space. Their European event will be in London the week after IIW.

Kynetx Impact is the developer conference for Phil Windley’s company focused on how to make apps responding to data in real time.

Privacy Identity and Innovation: Building Trust in the Digital Age is happening the third week of May in Santa Clara and will likely feature many IIW community members.

You can join our Announcement list here to be notified when IIW’s are coming up.

Bringing together user-centric, enterprise and government identity initiatives.

Registration is live and you can see who is registered on the page.

We have an amazing group of people registered and a really diverse range of proposed topics.

AND we have this really cool poster!

Monday February 14th, prior to RSA North America

Registration Here

This event is being jointly produced by the Kantara Initiative and IIW producers (Doc Searls, Phil Windley and Kaliya Hamlin), Identity Commons.

Join us in connecting the big enterprise resources with individual contributors (big and small) The focus of this event will be to explore the emerging synergies between the user-centric and enterprise communities.

On-going perceptions of a struggle between these two communities have been written about and explored by some of the brightest minds in the identity management and privacy spaces.  However, given this event takes place on Valentine’s Day the, Identity Collaboration Day will take the inverse approach and focus on what these groups actually have in common and how we can, and ARE, working together to leverage the sweet spots within both areas of approach.  We hope that you’ll join us in working to dispel negative competitive perceptions and work towards harmonized approaches for the good of all!

We imagine a whole range of interesting topics that user-centric and enterprise communities contribute to will be put forth. You can see the range of topics covered at the most recent IIW in November here on their wiki.   Kantara’s current list of working groups is here and latest announcements can be found here.

So…. if you are involved in the Identity Commons or Kantara Initiative, OIX, Open ID, Information Cards or anything else identity related come and spend a day collaborating together!

Like IIW, the agenda will be created live the day of the event by the participants.  Ideas for session topics are gathered as attendees register and they will be shared online leading up to the event.

Due to the many different activities happening on the Monday before RSA, we have divided the day into 2 distinct sessions – morning and afternoon. Tickets are available for the entire day or for just the Morning or Afternoon session. Agenda creation will happen a second time just after lunch at the beginning of the Afternoon session.

The venue is in downtown San Francisco, just a short walking distance, cab or subway ride from the RSA Convention Center.

Please e-mail us if you have questions about the event (iiwnotes@gmail.com).

Schedule

8:00 AM               Registration – Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30            Agenda Creation Part 1
9:30 – 10:30          Session 1
10:30 – 11:30        Session 2
11:30 -12:30         Session 3
12:30                    Lunch & Registration for Afternoon Session

We plan to serve a tasty and easily transportable box lunch!

1:30 – 2:00            Agenda Creation Part 2
2:00 – 3:00            Session 4
3:00 – 4:00            Session 5
4:00 – 5:00            Session 6
5:00 – 5:30            Closing

5:30 – 6:30            Social Hour Immediately Following the Closing

The Internet is evolving from a set of web-sites connected by hyperlinks to a set of web-applications connected via APIs.  Google’s original search business evolved from those using those hyperlinks to index the Web.  The Googlers who attend IIW are there to help build and evangelize tools that enables those web applications to connect via APIs.  Google offers many tools for developers to build web applications to help the Internet evolve.  These include tools such as Google Web Toolkit, Google App Engine, Google Analytics, etc.  The technologies discussed at IIW, such as OAuth and OpenID, are key tools for the latest generation of web applications.

Security is a key aspect of these API connections because in many cases the data being moved is private, as opposed to public.  Developers prefer for security protocols to be publicly documented and debated by community experts who will help find any potential security flaws.  Many sessions at IIW are focused specifically on these types of security evaluations by experts in areas such as cryptography including members of Google’s security team.

The IIW sessions on user experience are also critical, especially when it involves issues of privacy, consent, and control over private data.  While tools like OAuth & OpenID are powerful, they raise many user experience challenges, and so web-applications developers need information about best practices in those areas.  Google has made a large investment in publishing our research in that area.  For example, at the most recent IIW we announced openidsamplestore.com which is a fully interactive site to showcase the latest best practices for how to be an OpenID relying party.

Google definitely plans to continue to have a large set of attendees at future IIWs.  We are increasing the number of projects we are pursuing the area of Internet Identity.  We are also constantly on the lookout for people we can hire to help those efforts, so if you are interested, contact me at esachs@google.com

See the Notes for the Conference here on the wiki.

Values of IIW articulated by attendees & descriptions of what IIW is from the IIW blog.

Attendees can be seen on our registration page.

Blog Posts about the conference:

• IIW Fascinates Me by Darius Dunlap, November 11th
• IIW OAuth Enterprise BOF: Session Management by Phil Hunt, November 10th
• JSON Public Key Spec Results at IIW on Thursday by Mike Jones, November 9th
• Internet Identity Workshop #11 by Franco Travostino, November 8th
• Google, Dogs, ponies and relying parties by John Fontana, November 8th
• WS-Trust and SAML and OAuth, oh my! by Pat Patterson, November 4th
• Monica Wilkinson’s Activity Streams 101 session at IIW as told by Kevin Marks by Mark Krynsky,  Nov 10th
• Internet Identity Workshop Wrap Up by Jan Rain November 5th
• Essential Characteristics of a Personal Data Store by Phil Windley, November 2
• Activity Streams 101 Session at IIW by Monica, November 2

IIW Europe #1 was October 11th in London prior to RSA Europe.  It was a big success we had 80 people in attendance and 50+ sessions.  Notes can be seen here on the wiki.

Here are some of the sentences that people wrote:

Bring consensus on some uniformity.

Collaborative Thinking on Industry Standards

Integrating technologies with practice and acceptable use.

Working in the wild.

Openness + fusion of ideas across institutions on a hard problem.

Engaging and open to ideas.

Inter industry exchange with peers.

Sharing Diverse Perspectives

Anti-Bullshit

Human-Centered

Empowered Individuals

Close on decisions faster then e-mail.

See old friends in the ID industry, meet new ones.

Defining a structure so that commercialization can thrive.

Get a glipse of topics that aren’t on the radar yet.

Get a better idea of where identity is going (and not going)

A new business opportunity Seriously the ability to share information with who/what (and ONLY who I want) when I want and transact with them, with trust.

An alternative approach to bringing ID people together to share and explore new ideas.

Making Shit Happen

Connecting smart people who care about identity.

Developing & Increasing Adoption of identity-related standards that make it possible for an end-user to have control of their own information and where its used.

Informed Exchange of Opinions

Getting people out of our commercial centric bubbles to focus on the progression of identity tech.

Bringing together diverse communities

Bottoms-up progress

Open collaboration to make the web better

Consensus Building

Brainstorming of ideas + concepts

Meeting Industry thought leaders

open discussion about current topics

Support the “Little Guy” (end-user & implementor)

Redefining internet experiences

News about the most recent technologies

Consistency of identity from UX builds widespread trust.

Make identity secure and easy to use

Standards to solve problems not just driving agendas.

Growing Consensus

Promoting the adoption of identity management standards

To get the common solution for identity sharing and make it into the standards in the industry across many big famous companies.

Do what’s right for our customers

Open for All

Discussion with Expanded Circles

IIW is the meetings space where the user centric identity community invents the future.

IIW is where technology and humanity join forces.

As a result of today I feel that efforts from the past 6 years of IIW “plumbing” + “philosophical” discussion may be yielding value for consumers, business and startups.

As a result of this conference I have a deeper understanding of the technical challenges and opportunities in creating end-user value. (Browser, device, Internet search sites) & the new business models that will launched.

As a result of this conference I understand PDS/PDX more and believe we are on the verge of having a a whole bunch of businesses around it.

IIW is an amazing collection of people, ideas, passion and perspective about very important issues, technology and its fun.

IIW is a workspace and venue where thought leadership is developed on the key concept social, media and online activity: personal identity management.

As a result of this conference I will build a personal data store (for my fluffy cat).

As a result of this conference I’m going to create an initiac implications map/starting points for scenarios on the future of personal data stores.

As a result of this conference, I am convinced that IIW is both a business and civic opportunity.

As a result of this conference, I now have way to many ideas for what to do next.

IIW is still the highest signal-to-noise conference that I have ever found.

AS a result of this conference I know much more about internet identity and the people driving its future.

IIW is a great collaboration to understand the value of our digital footprint.

IIW is a place for everyone (competitors, friends) to discuss and solve problems that hold us all back from the future we desire.

As a result of this conference, I’m encouraged to work harder on identity solutions that make the web better for the user.

IIW is a place to learn the breadth of the meaning of identity.

IIW is great and should tour around the world

IIW is the best conference there is.

IIW is always awesome.

IIW is fun.

IIW is fluffy.

IIW is unconventional

As a result of today I came closer to closing a business contract!

I learned about OpenID and OAuth & see better how they relate to the work I’m doing in the enterprise identity space.

IIW is biased toward technical discussions.

As a result of this conference I am seriously pursuing deployment of activity streams, OAuthZ, OpenID ABC and some other cool stuff into my environment in the near future.

As a result of this conference I’ve been able to complete the circle on OAuth, OpenID or at least fill in some blanks.

IIW is interesting internet wonks

As a result of today I learned of firesheep and how to make a new session delay which is not vulnerable in this way.

IIW is? two parts I an one part I.

IIW is improv for web specs “yes, and.”

As a result of today, I’m burned out…(perhaps) IIW is to long?

I am exhausted but better off for it.

As a result of this conference my network of brilliance has massively expanded.

IIW is the best excuse for a spec drama ever.

IIW is helping my identity crisis.

IIW is where I lost my corporate identity.

As a result of IIW I found my tribe.

As a result of the conference I get to know great identity people.

IIW is amazing.

IIW is the Switzerland of Silicon Valley.

Mary Ruddy presented about the theme for the Open Identity for Open Government.

The Center has undergone a landmark restoration to its former glory of the 1927 Renaissance Revival design, with adaptations to serve a broad range of modern needs and environmental retrofitting.  The special event space is where we are hosting the Internet Identity Workshop.

We are making sure there is going to be adequate wifi for the event with Jump Labs sponsoring that aspect of the conference.   Just as we do in our regular IIW we will be having a barista for most of the 2 days.

Dinner Thursday evening will be hosted thanks to Booz Allen Hamilton who is sponsoring AND we will be having a bus transport people from the venue to our dinner location that will be even closer to a metro then IIW.

We know it is quite different then our usual home on the west coast at the Computer History Museum however we think it will prove to be a great starting point for future events on the East Coast.

The Tenth Internet Identity Workshop in May, 2010 was the largest ever. We have had inquiries from community members on the East Coast of the US and in Europe have been lobbying us to bring the event to their locations.  We are happy to confirm that we are going host IIW’s in Washington, DC  and London.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please take some action if you like IIW and are reading this. IIW is been about the community that attends and participates year round in the activities of groups that use the event to get real work done and move the industry and vision of user-centric identity that works for people forward.

So with these events upcoming Phil, Doc and I need your help in spreading the word to your collegues on the East Coast and in Europe who would enjoy the event.

To help you do this we have several tools and options.
Blog badges for specific events. (These are two of them their are more on the wiki)

For IIW-East September 9-10 in Washington DC

• A Venue! the Josephine Butler Parks Center (a 10min walk from the Columbia Heights Metro)
• an Invitation up online
• Registration is up here
• an invitation designed to be send via e-mail
• IIW Twitter List for IIW-East
• RSVP on Social Networks - LinkedIN, Upcoming, Facebook

For IIW-Europe, October 11 in London we have

• A still being developed invitation up on the IIW site
• Registration is live Early bird ticket sales end August 31
• RSVP on Social Networks: LinkedIN, Upcoming, Facebook
• Twitter List (it will be a bit small until we have more registrations)

For IIW #11 in Mountain View, November 9-11

• We have a simple invitation up online
• Registration is live Super Early bird ticket sales end August 31

If you value IIW and the conversations that happen there please take some initiative and reach out to colleagues to spread the word about these events.  Because of the community focus of the events we  rely strongly on community word of mouth to let people know about them.

It would be great to have community ideas put forward for the main IIW invitation articulating the current foci of conversations.

November 2-4

Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA

Registration

The emerging themes for IIW #11 are:

• Personal Data Ecosystem
• Federated Social Web
• User-Centric Identity applied (OpenID, OAuth, XRD, SAML, InfoCard, Activity Streams, etc.)
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Active Clients (tools in the browser and other clients)
• Identity in the Cloud

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) is a working group of the Identity Commons and has been convened in California semi-annually since 2005. The 10th IIW was held this past May and had the largest attendance thus far.

We listened to feedback from IIW attendees who missed the space it created to innovate and get work done – we agree with you. Phil wrote a post about the shift in September  during IIW-East in DC.

We can stand still and serve as a workshop for introducing newbies to Internet identity or we can move forward as the conversation shifts to the interesting questions that Internet identity brings up. We’re choosing the later path. IIW can’t serve both groups effectively and ultimately we’re rather be a smaller workshop closer to the “get your hands dirty” attitude that has characterized IIW from the start.

This is not to say that first timers are not welcome, but that people shouldn’t expect a lot of “getting up to speed” type sessions.  Come and work.

Internet Identity Workshops focus on “user-centric identity” addressing the technical and adoption challenge of how people can manage their own identity and data across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations with which they interact.

About IIW

Our events have a blend of technology and policy discussions where everyone from a diverse range of projects doing the real-work of making this vision happen, gather and work intensively for two days. It is the best place to meet and participate with all the key people and projects going on in the field.

The event has a unique format – the agenda is created live the day of the event. This allows for the discussion of key issues, projects and a lot of interactive opportunities with key industry leaders.

We collect proposed topics from attendees as they register you can see the current list here on our wiki.

You can see who is registered so far on the registration page.

How does it work?
After the brief introduction on the first day, there are no formal presentations, no keynotes and no panels. After introductions we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, with a facilitator guiding the process attendees create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone there. All are welcome to put forward presentations and propose conversations.

We do this in part because the field is moving so rapidly that it doesn’t make sense to predetermine the presentation schedule months before the event. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion to learn and contribute to the event that will make it.

The event compiles a book of proceedings with all the notes from the conference. Here are the proceedings from IIW7, IIW8, IIW9 & IIW10. BTW these three documents are your key to convincing your employer that this event will be valuable.

The First IIW-Europe

October 11, 2010 London

University of London, MacMillan Hall

Registration is now open 

RSVP on Social Networks: LinkedIN, Upcoming, Facebook 

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) is a working group of the Identity Commons and has been convened in California semi-annually since the fall of 2005. The 10th IIW was held this past May and had the largest attendance thus far. There have been many requests to have an IIW come to Europe, and now the emerging interfederation at the European scale is providing a timely basis to have one in London. This event immediately precedes RSA and has the theme of Identity Across Borders and Sectors. 

IIW’s focus is on “user-centric identity” or “user-driven identity” – addressing the technical and adoption challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations with which they interact.  The focus of this first IIW-Europe will be on the whole range of global and European initiatives in this space. 

• Mydex
• UK online identity
• Stork
• PV Net
• German ID Card
• Various national ID schemes
• Various loyalty schemes
• TRM Project
• National e-Identity Programmes
• European eID Interoperability Platform (STORK)
• OpenID
• IMI Information Cards
• Personal Data Protection and the Digital Economy
• NIH pilot adoption of Open Identity technologies
• Certification of industry open identity credentials
• Business models for higher LOA open identity credentials
• Government, Commerce and Research and Education Identities
• Re-engineering of multiple major services (health, benefits, pensions, tax)

• What are the business cases for the adoption of Open Identity Technologies
• What are the new legal constructs that make this work
• How to use open identity technologies to preserve privacy while providing personalization
• Data Protection Directive and Privacy Issues
• Personal Data – how is it stored and shared with end users
• Personal, Non-Personal and Potentially Identifying Information
• How are these new approaches regulated?
• Online Identity: moving beyond the current ‘privacy’ debate to smart information sharing
• Personal Data Stores and the challenges they will drive

Technical Issues:

• What software is available to leverage open identity standards
• Open identity standards (identity and semantic)
• How different standards and technical implementations interoperate
• How agencies can accept identity credentials generated by other organizations
• How open identity technologies can enable your website to move beyond brochure ware, without using cookies
• How to leverage open identity technologies in your technology roadmap
• How to implement Federated Identity
• Technology issues involved in implementing existing Identity Management technology
• Lessons learned – what are the most effective ways for Federal Agencies to build and employ identity systems
• Scalable Trust

New Industry Developments:

• Personal Data Stores/Data Banks with our digital footprints recorded
• What new Identity Management technologies are on the horizon
• Strategy  for trusted identities in Cyberspace

Please join us for IIW Europe

To consider all these topics and more!

Register Here

September 9 and 10*, 2010

Josaphine Butler Parks Center

Theme: Open Identity for Open Government.

Register Here!

RSVP on Social Networks - LinkedIN, Upcoming, Facebook

The Internet Identity Workshop has been held semi-annually in California since the Fall of 2005. The 10th IIW was held this past May and had the largest attendance thus far. There have been many requests to have an IIW on the East coast, and now the Open Identity for Open Government Initiative and the recently released National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is providing a timely incentives to have one in Washington. This event immediately follows the Gov 2.0 Summit

IIWs focus is on “user-centric identity”, addressing the technical and adoption challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies, government agencies and organizations with which they interact. IIW-East will focus mainly on the government adoption of open identity technologies for use by government websites.

The event has a unique format – the agenda is created live the day of the event. This allows for the discussion of key issues, projects and a lot of interactive opportunities with key industry leaders.

The event compiles a book of proceedings with the notes that are gathered from the conference. You can find the Book of Proceedings for IIW7, IIW8,  IIW9 & IIW10 here. BTW these FOUR documents are your key to convincing your employer that this event will be valuable. As attendees register we ask about topics they wish to discuss.

Providing identity services between the general public and government websites is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within one or a few organizations (enterprise provisioning/termination or federation between two companies or government agencies).

As a community we are exploring these kinds of issues:

Questions Agencies Face:

• How can open identity technologies enable open government
• How can agencies leverage identity credentials generated by other organizations
• How can the government  leverage the efforts of social networking sites that offer user-centric identity credentials
• What are the advantages to agencies of adopting open identity technologies
• How can open identity technologies enable your websites to move beyond brochure-ware
• How can we increase the speed in which government organizations can benefit from the use of open identity approaches
• How to manage Federated Identity on an ever increasing scale
• What are the implications of National Strategy for existing policy mandates
• Should there be integrated political architecture
• There are five distinct Cyber Security Bills in Congress now – what are the implications

Policy  Considerations:

• The relationship between FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) and identity management
• What are the business cases for agencies to adopt Open Identity Technologies
• What are the new legal constructs that make this work
• How to use open identity technologies to preserve privacy while providing personalization
• GSA standards for the use of open identity technology
• Data Privacy Issues
• Personal Data – how is it stored and shared with end users
• How are these new approaches regulated

Technical Issues:

• Open identity standards (identity and semantic)
• What software is available to leverage open identity standards
• How different standards and technical implementations interoperate
• How agencies can accept identity credentials generated by other organizations
• How open identity technologies can enable your website to move beyond brochure ware, without using cookies
• How to leverage open identity technologies in your technology roadmap
• How to implement Federal Identity
• Tecnlogy issues involved in implementing existing Identity Management technology
• Lessons learned – what are the most effective ways for Federal Agencies to build and employ identity systems

New Industry Developments:

• Personal Data Stores/Data Banks with our digital footprints recorded
• What new Identity Management technologies are on the horizon
• National strategy for trusted identities in Cyberspace

Please join us at the Internet Identity Workshop

To consider all these and more!

* We realize that these dates conflict with a Jewish holiday. We had already set the date and committed to a venue before we realized this and were unable to change it.  We will be more conscious of checking forthcoming dates against major religious holiday calendars.

Theme: Open Identity for Open Government.

Register Here!

Internet Identity Workshop East (IIW-East) is September 9-10, 2010 in Washington DC at the Josephine Butler Parks Center.  This event immediately follows the Gov 2.0 Summit.

The Internet Identity Workshop has been held semi-annually in California since the Fall of 2005. The 10th IIW which happened in May was the largest thus far. There have been many requests to have an IIW on the East coast, and now the Open Identity for Open Government Initiative is providing a timely basis to have one in Washington.

IIWs focus on “user-centric identity”, addressing the technical and adoption challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies, government agencies and organizations with which they interact. IIW-East will focus mainly on the government adoption of open identity technologies for use by government websites.

Paul Madsen inspired by this tweet sent us this cartoon.

We still have IIW stickers so be sure to get some next week!

If you can’t make it and you send us your address (identitywoman@gmail.com subject line  STICKER) I will mail you a few after the conference.

Time: 8:30am – 6pm

Meeting Host: Yahoo 701 First Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Building E Classroom 9

Agenda: Discussion of open issues around OAuth 2.0. The latest version of the OAuth 2.0

If you have feedback on these dates before we “set them in stone” please give us feedback in the next week.

Thanks.

Kaliya, Phil and Doc.