{"id":205,"date":"2007-09-28T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/who-are-all-these-identity-working-groups-and-what-are-they-doing"},"modified":"2007-09-28T07:48:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:48:25","slug":"who-are-all-these-identity-working-groups-and-what-are-they-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/who-are-all-these-identity-working-groups-and-what-are-they-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are All These Identity Working Groups and What Are They Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated.<\/b> The array of initiatives and working groups and acronyms in identity is large, seemingly growing all the time and very definitely a bewildering jungle to the newcomer.<\/p>\n

This problem just came up again today in the Identity Open Space (see, one of those bewildering places!) after Digital Identity World (another), and I figured somebody had to post a simple map to the place, and that might as well be me. So here you are. Let me know what I forgot; and, if you are part of one of the initiatives that I mention, please correct me if my description should be improved.<\/p>\n

This is alphabetical to be as fair as possible. It has been pointed out to me that the relationships between the projects are also very important; I agree, but that’s going to be real hard to document. So for the time being, that’s all you get ;-)<\/p>\n

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Bandit<\/a><\/dt>\n
Open-source project that builds a set of loosely-coupled components for Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing. Initiated by Novell.<\/dd>\n
Concordia<\/a><\/dt>\n
Recently initiated in the context of the Liberty Alliance (see below), Concordia will initially focus on use cases for multi-protocol interoperability. Concordia is legally part of the Liberty Alliance, I believe, but there are some talks (though no actions yet) to charter it under the Identity Commons.<\/dd>\n
Digital Identity World<\/a><\/dt>\n
The main identity trade show and conference in the United States.<\/dd>\n
Higgins<\/a><\/dt>\n
An open-source project currently part of the Eclipse Foundation that develops multi-protocol software components. For example, the Higgins project is developing open-source information card selectors similar to Microsoft CardSpace for other platforms.<\/dd>\n
Identity Commons<\/a><\/dt>\n
The Identity Commons is an industry association for the collaborative development of the technical, social and legal aspects of a user-centric identity layer on the internet. Many of the other initiatives listed here are chartered as working groups in the Identity Commons. Some of them are formed to accomplish a specific objective and disband shortly thereafter. Others are expected to keep going for a long time. If you are new to this bewildering array of projects, this is probably where you should start exploring<\/b> (link<\/a>)<\/dd>\n
Identity Gang<\/a><\/dt>\n
The Identity Gang is an invitation-based mailing list and public wiki bringing together most of the movers and shakers around identity. Operating as Working Group of the Identity Commons.<\/dd>\n
Identity Open Space<\/a><\/dt>\n
A series of "unconference"-style events produced by Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls and Phil Windley, in association with other events such as Digital Identity World. See also Internet Identity Workshop.<\/dd>\n
IETF<\/a><\/dt>\n
A technical standards body for internet protocol standards. No identity-related work is currently performed there, but there are several related activities.<\/dd>\n
Internet Identity Workshop<\/a><\/dt>\n
A series of "unconference"-style workshops produced twice a year by Kaliya Hamlin, Doc Searls and Phil Windley. It is the primary face-to-face gathering of the various individuals and groups working on user-centric identity. It operates as Working Group of the Identity Commons.<\/dd>\n
ITU-T Focus Group on Identity Management<\/a><\/dt>\n
The ITU is a technical standards body for telecommunications-related protocol standards following international standardization processes. The objective of the Focus Group is to facilitate the development of a generic Identity Management framework, by fostering participation of all telecommunications and ICT experts on Identity Management.<\/dd>\n
Kerberos Consortium<\/a><\/dt>\n
Just recently created, the MIT Kerberos Consortium intends "to establish Kerberos as the universal authentication platform for the world’s computer networks.".<\/dd>\n
Liberty Alliance<\/a><\/dt>\n
An industry association for the development and promotion of federated identity standards. Established in 2001, it has focused mostly on intra and inter-enterprise scenarios.<\/dd>\n
OAuth<\/a><\/dt>\n
A community and protocol to allow secure API authentication from desktop and web applications.<\/dd>\n
Oath<\/a><\/dt>\n
Organization and technology standards to define open authentication protocols. for universal strong authentication on many kinds of devices and networks.<\/dd>\n
OASIS<\/a><\/dt>\n
A technical standards body for structured information standards. The development of XRI, XDI and SAML identity protocols resides here.<\/dd>\n
OpenID<\/a><\/dt>\n
OpenID is a community and a set of user-centric identity protocols, facilitated by the OpenID Foundation. OpenID is also chartered as a working group in the Identity Commons.<\/dd>\n
OSIS<\/a><\/dt>\n
Organizes and harmonizes the development of software components for the internet-scale identity system by focusing on specific interoperability use cases, and demonstrating these multi-vendor scenarios at public events. Organized as a working group of the Identity Commons.<\/dd>\n
PRIME<\/a><\/dt>\n
European research project to develop a working prototype of a privacy-enhancing identity management system.<\/dd>\n
Shibboleth<\/a><\/dt>\n
Part of the Internet 2 project, Shibboleth is an open-source project that provides Web-based Single-Sign-On.<\/dd>\n
VRM<\/a><\/dt>\n
Initiated by Doc Searls at the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School, the Vendor Relationship Management project is a community-driven effort to support the creation and building of VRM tools. The VRM project is expected to be chartered under the Identity Commons.<\/dd>\n
W3C<\/a><\/dt>\n
A technical standards body for web standards. No identity-related work is currently performed there, but there are several related activities.<\/dd>\n
XDI.org<\/a><\/dt>\n
A non-profit governing the XDI and XRI infrastructure. It also holds the XRI and XDI intellectual property.<\/dd>\n
Yadis<\/a><\/dt>\n
Meta-data discovery framework for identity services. Now required for OpenID implementations, but useful for many other applications as well that need to discovery services from URLs or other identifiers.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Again, send all additions and corrections to me. Thanks to Kaliya Hamlin<\/a>, Neil Macehiter<\/a> and Mike Jones<\/a> for their input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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