Introduction to Identity Commons

We are a community of groups working on addressing the social, legal and technical issues that arise with the emerging, identity, data and social layer of the internet.

To understand more about the community the wiki where you will find it..

Highlights from Q1 2008 Reports

The 6th Internet Identity Workshop is coming up May 12-14, immediately followed by a Data Sharing Summit.

The OpenID Foundation had 5 corporate members join the board - Google, Verisign, Microsoft, Yahoo and IBM. OpenID Japan was founded and guidelines for local chapters are being developed.

OSIS Open Source Identity Systems is working towards the completion of its third major Interop event (at RSA and the European Identity Conference) with 57 projects participating.

XRI 2.0 will be going to a vote within OASIS shortly.

Higgins 1.0 open source code base for identity systems was released on Feb 21st.

Project VRM is leading a 1.5 day workshop at the European Identity Conference and has an active London Chapter. Work continues on the initial text case Personal Address Management

New Groups of Note:

Enterprise Positioning is a community of people inside enterprises who need to understand and explain the application of user-centric identity in that context.

IC Evangelism and Marketing began to help develop clearer messaging for Identity Commons and develop a values statement.

Newbies 4 Newbies have given invaluable feedback on the language used to articulate user-centric identity, helping to improve the Internet Identity Workshop announcement significantly. If you are new to User-Centric Digtial Identity – wondering what they heck is all this stuff – what do these acronyms mean – this is the group for you.

The Photo Group started with three groups on Flickr 1) Identerati Portraits, 2) The Art of Identity and 3) Member Gallery with the photos they have taken.

The Quiet Groups:
IC Collaborative Tools , XDI Commons , Identity Schema , Identity Rights Agreements , Identity Futures , IdMedia Review

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