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iiw12: Trust Frameworks

May 4th, 2011
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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.

Trust Framework diagram

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).

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Internet Identity Workshop in May!

May 4th, 2009
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Internet Identity Workshop logo 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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