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iiw12: Trust Frameworks

coach — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:52:12 +0000

The IIW conference is again underway in Mountain View, CA. This is the 12th conference. I’m capturing some of the sessions in video and/or picture-enhanced audio streams. The later option is important as the Computer History Museum offers free wi-fi, but for over 200 attendees it’s spread pretty thin.

Lately I’ve been beta testing out a low-bandwidth record/broadcast app for my phone called Chachanga. It captures the audio and pairs it with a picture, captured periodically from my phone’s camera. I started the recording a bit late in our first session–here’s most of the Trust Frameworks session with Drummond Reed of Connect.me.

What’s a Trust Framework? From the Open Identity Exchange (OIX):

In digital identity systems, a trust framework is a certification program that enables a party who accepts a digital identity credential (called the relying party) to trust the identity, security, and privacy policies of the party who issues the credential (called the identity service provider) and vice versa.

Basically, it’s a system that helps establish trust between parties: including people (“users” in this picture), sites or services that can verify who you are, and sites or services that need to know who you are. The OIX offers several pdf whitepapers explaining more about Trust Frameworks.

Coaching moment: I care about trust frameworks because I want certain services to be available in a way that protects and assures me that what I want is accurately represented. For example, if I need to digitally prove I’m over 18, I might rely on the DMV to back up my claim. If I need to show that my eyes have 20:20 vision, my eye doctor or health care provider will vouch for me.

One interesting thing about this is that the parties in these scenarios don’t need to know or provide more information about me than necessary: Yes, over 18 years old, or Yes, 20:20 vision. There’s no extra or out of bounds sharing, like “18 years old and… (cue Facebook pictures).” This is about “just the facts” from parties who can be trusted (in a legal sense).

IIWX: The Videos

coach — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:12:03 +0000

This year I’ve been scrambling between sessions that start and end with no break in between. Many of the videos are missing the first few minutes; the whole of the sessions are here. I’ll be uploading these over the next couple of days as my net access is severely constrained. One might reasonably think that the Computer History Museum–in the heart of Silicon Valley–would have good wireless connectivity, but I’ve seen too many jokes about their connecting a 300 baud modem to the wireless router. After all, it is history.

Here are my video archives.

My thanks to TubeMogul for distributing these videos, and to Blip.tv for hosting them all.

IIW: past and present

coach — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:40:41 +0000

It’s that time of year again. The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW X) is coming up in a week. I’m planning to attend, and will keep you informed by video.

Speaking of IIW and videos, I was just reviewing my videos from last year (IIW IX and IIW8). One lesson learned: last year for IIW IX I tried to live stream the sessions but wow, the network at the Computer History Museum is… how shall I say… less than optimal for anything like staying connected. Many of the videos are in pieces, as the streaming failures usually crashed my browser too.

Here’s what I have from IIW-IX. Sorry about the advertising. I can’t turn it off.

Data Portability (real start is about 1:20 minutes in) with Elias Bizannes
Bioinformatics, Identity and the Law (part 1, part 2) with Scott David
Information Sharing (part 1, part 2) with Joe Andrieu
Schema Mapping with Paul Trevethick
Brainstorming about 4th Party Services (part 1, part 2)
Creating Action Cards (part 1, part 2, part 3) with Phil Windley, Kynetx
Interview with Steve Fulling, Kynetx (video missing in the beginning)
Demo: Attribute Aggregation with David Chadwick
Demo: Tastonomics from Orange Labs (part 1, part 2)
Demo: Ouno (part 1, part 2)

In contrast, I learned a different set of lessons for IIW8 (last spring). Those videos were recorded to disk. I had them all available as .mov files, but have recently updated them all to flash (still apparently the most commonly used format). Thanks to TubeMogul for distributing them to Blip.tv and iTunes. Here’s the post with links to each downloadable session.

If you’re inclined to join us for next week’s event, the logo above will take you to the registration page. Otherwise, stay tuned for selected video from this unconference.

IIW8: What was it all about?

coach — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:20:07 +0000

The Internet Identity Workshop (IIW8) was held in May 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Here’s my brief conference report.

Coaching moment: Like most developments, first comes an idea then a discussion, followed by an implementation and testing. Thankfully most people aren’t involved in these early stages when things may not work well, or may take more patience or tech skills than you have. That said, it’s good to know what’s on the horizon. It helps you be aware of tools that will help you when they become available, and knowing about these tools helps counter some of the spin from companies that want to “help you” protect yourself.

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Internet Identity Workshop in May!

coach — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:56:56 +0000

The spring Internet Identity Workshop is coming up in a couple of weeks, May 18-20. The organizers have extended regular registration prices for another week! If you are interested in Identity, and especially if you are working on developing identity-related technologies or services, membership web sites, or even if you’re just curious about what’s going on in this quickly evolving field, I invite you to join me at this event.

The conference is in Mountain View, between San Francisco and San Jose (do you know the way?). It’s organized as an unconference, which means the sessions are proposed until we get there. All sessions are decided by the participants on the days of the event. That way we all have an equal voice in learning, exploring, and teaching.

The conference ranges from the highly technical geeks and professionals to the interested and curious “newbies.” There will be demos on the last day, and plenty of people to ask questions of. This is a unique and still relatively small group, so the signal to noise is wonderful.

There is a lot to learn, and these are the folks you want to talk with. I encourage you to register today, and look forward to seeing you there!

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