Us, Our Organizations and the Evolving Web: Leveraging Identity Tools for Collaboration. This talk was given at the Net Squared 2008 Conference. The goal was to share some of the activity ongoing in the identity community, how it might be used by the nonprofit sector and invite their involvement in its continued development.

1. US, OUR ORGANIZATIONS
&
THE EVOLVING WEB
Leveraging Identity Tools for Collaboration
Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman .net
Catalyst, Identity Commons
Co-Producer and Facilitator, Internet Identity Workshop
Co-Producer and Facilitator, Data Sharing Summit

2. I first started evangelizing about user centric identity
in 2004 at the March NTEN conference inviting
people to the forthcoming Planetwork conference
in June were emerging identity ideas and standards
were to be discussed.

3. Today 2008
In 2004 I was a
Radical Idealist These are very real
technologies being
developed by major
industry players.

4. What major industry players?
Enterprise
Web Portals
Companies
MSFT IBM
Google Startups CA
Yahoo! Parity
Oracle
Cordance
AOL Novell
Six Apart
ICA (Ask.com) SUN
Sxip
Plaxo (Comcast) Vidoop
Verisign
JanRain
NetMesh
ooTao
Cerado
Ciabe
Chimp

5. They are innovating the emerging
Identity and Relationship Layer of the Web

6. The Components of the Emerging
Identity and Relationship Layer
(XRI / XDI)

7. Why does it matter

8. In 1999 Planetwork gathered together
50 environmental groups to consider:

9. There were two unsatisfactory answers
OR

10. There are organizations and they have webistes,
member databases and networks.
and there are people.

11. People participate in more then one organization.
If the people also had identities something they could
move around between organizations (like we move
our bodies around in physical space) there could be
some interesting social emergent effects.

12. Emergent Properties
for
&
Groups
Individuals
Augmented Social Network:
Building Identity and Trust into
the Next Generation Internet
2003 Jordan, Hauser, Foster,

14. Collaborator
=Kaliya
WEBSITE
Relying Party
WEBSITE
Relying Party
i-broker
OpenID
Provider
OpenID Authentication Layer
The Web

15. This is not about One Identity.
This is about the
Freedom to Aggregate

17. Here are several community
websites with the information
about the organization
Here is an organization
with four branches
The question is how to make sure the information
like hours, and volunteering is current and updated.

18. Get on the phone to change all the info?
Log into all the websites and change it?

19. Data Linking creates a persistent link between the
information and the places that it appears.
It creates a data link.

20. These data linking tools can also work for
people as well as organizations.

21. Who is leading the world in doing this data linking?
The radical idealists? The corporate folks?
Neither

22. The support network for breast
feeding mothers La Leche Legue
International is leading the way
in implementing these technologies
for their network of websites.

23. Companies involved in implementing
Strong Eye Kintera
ooTao GoLightly
Re-Wiring the Web
Standards
XRI & XDI

25. There are two kinds of i-cards.
Managed Self Issued
Like todays web you say what you
these are cards given
want about your self - instead of
to you by somone else
filling it out again and again in forms
- like a bank card or a
on the web you put it in a card and
membership card for
can share it.
an organization

26. These are screenshots of the
Higgins Card selector with both self
issued and managed cards.

27. Who is leading the effort to develop these technologies?
Card Space
(open source)

28. To learn about OSIS interops and more and participate see -
osis.idcommons.net
RSA Conference
3rd Interop
European Identity
Spring 2007
Conference

29. 4th Interop
Digital Identity World
Fall 2008

30. Better Way to Sign On
Brains on the Client - Phishing Protection
Better Way to Share information
Lots of activity ongoing with OSIS

31. Big Co.

32. Personal Address Manager
How do I tell all the companies I do business
with or organizations I give to about this?

33. Personal Address Manager
Relationship cards work weaving the information cards
technology and data linking together creating a link
between the individual and the company.

34. Pause for Questions

35. Looking Ahead
Here are a few issues that I see on the horizon that
are relevant to organizations and people
that need attention

36. Looking Ahead
Relationships as Nodes not Edges

37. Looking Ahead
How to support Persona Management in social platforms.
Can there be toggle functionality between different logins owned by the same person
while on a platform without having to login and logout again and again?

38. Looking Ahead
Organizers and organization needs
and rights in and across social systems.

39. Will their be civil society involvement?
wiki.idcommons.net
Higgins OpenID Foundation
OSIS XDI.org
Project VRM
Newbies 4 Newbies XDI Commons

40. Proposing Next RFP
or Picking Next Web 2.0 Tool
* OpenID Provider & Relying Party
* OAuth x-site data access and permission
* Microformats - HTML markukp
* Data Export
Looking Ahead
Data Linking XRI / XDI
Open Social + Other Emerging Open Standards
Future support for i-cards

41. Further Resources
.net
OpenID.net
kaliya@mac.com
Data Linking
skype:identitywoman
ooTao.com
Vendor Relationship Management
i-cards
Workshop July 10-12, Boston
identityblog.com www.projectvrm.org
eclipse.org/higgins
Data Sharing Summit 3
osis.idcommons.net September?
www.datasharingsummit.com
Project VRM Internet Identity Workshop
projectvrm.org Nov 10-12, Mountain View
iiw.idcommons.net