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TYPE: [White Paper] THE AUGMENTED SOCIAL NETWORK: BUILDING IDENTITY AND TRUST INTO THE NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET
DESCRIPTION: Abstract: Could the next generation of online communications strengthen civil society by better connecting people to others with whom they share affinities, so they can more effectively exchange information and self-organize? Could such a system help to revitalize democracy in the 21st century? When networked personal computing was first developed, engineers concentrated on extending creativity among individuals and enhancing collaboration between a few. They did not much consider what social interaction among millions of Internet users would actually entail. It was thought that the Net's technical architecture need not address the issues of "personal identity" and "trust," since those matters tended to take care of themselves. This paper proposes the creation of an Augmented Social Network (ASN) that would build identity and trust into the architecture of the Internet, in the public interest, in order to facilitate introductions between people who share affinities or complimentary capabilities across social networks. The ASN has three main objectives: 1) To create an Internet-wide system that enables more efficient and effective knowledge sharing between people across institutional, geographic, and social boundaries. 2) To establish a form of persistent online identity that supports the public commons and the values of civil society. 3) To enhance the ability of citizens to form relationships and self-organize around shared interests in communities of practice in order to better engage in the process of democratic governance. In effect, the ASN proposes a form of "online citizenship" for the Information Age.
PARTICIPANTS: Ken Jordan: ken@kenjordan.tv, Steven Foster: foster@geoman.com, Jan Hauser: jan@janhauser.com
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [PARTICIPANT] John Clippinger
DESCRIPTION: John Clippinger has been researching and writing about how discoveries in the new sciences such as the neuro-sciences, complexity sciences and evolutionary biology and sociology are transforming our understanding of Human Nature, specifically, the role of trust, reputation, social emotions, and self organization in forming effective forms of social and economic exchange. (Renaissance of the Commons, 2003).
PARTICIPANTS: John Clippinger
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [AUDIO INTERVIEW] Andre Durand CEO Ping Identity Corporation
DESCRIPTION: Spending six weeks on a friend's boat in the Caribbean was what it took for Andre Durand to see the big picture of federated identity. "It's more than just a technology problem," he says. Inspired in part by the worldwide ATM financial networks, he returned home with a vision to build the federated-identity infrastrcuture, which he broke down into three pieces: (1) federated-identity software supporting multiple protocols; (2) common legal agreements signed by all parties; and (3) a shared infrastrcuture of managed services.
His for-profit Ping Identity Corporation develops the software, which it then makes available using an open-source model from SourceID.org. The company also manages the shared network infrastrcture of PingID, which is the membership-driven entity that solves the scalability problem of the legal issues (managing the number of relationships that otherwise increases at an n-squared rate).
In this interview, Andre explains his vision for how real-world federated identity will be deployed. He also responds to three recent commentaries: Jim Rapoza of eWeek (who wrote that the Liberty Alliance "missed the point" on privacy), Doug Kaye, the host of IT Conversations (federation isn't as valuable for consumers as the Liberty Alliance documents suggest), and Carol Coye Benson of Glenbrook Partners (federated-identity networks won't support liability transfer).
Listen in to hear what Andre has to say about the coalescing (or not) of SAML, the Liberty Alliance, and WS-Federation, and just when federated identity will become mainstream for those extranet applications and for those that are consumer facing.
PARTICIPANTS: Doug Kaye, Andre Durand
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [eBook] The Definitive Guide to Identity Management
DESCRIPTION: The Definitive Guide to Identity Management, published by Realtimepublishers.com, is the a concise guide which explains the concept of Identity (ID) Management.
PARTICIPANTS: Archie Reed
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [White Paper] Identity Infrastructure (PDF)
DESCRIPTION: From the Paper's Introduction Section -> "Identity Infrastructure is that bundle of information, technology, processes and law by which “real world” identity is established, maintained (managed), propagated, shared, demonstrated, proved or disproved, expressed digitally, etc. Designed and built correctly, that infrastructure will support citizens’ identity needs where, when and how they choose, and will improve individual privacy while meeting needs for access to information. The purpose of this document is to provide a thought-provoking look at current and future functional identity needs and what will be necessary to meet them."
PARTICIPANTS: Daniel Greenwood
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: N/A

TYPE: [SOFTWARE] Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS 2003)
DESCRIPTION: MIIS 2003 enables the integration and management of identity information across multiple repositories, systems and platforms. MIIS 2003 augments the Active Directory directory service by providing broad interoperability capabilities including: integration with a wide range of identity repositories; provisioning and synchronizing identity information across multiple stores; and brokering changes to identity information by automatically detecting updates and sharing the changes across systems.
PARTICIPANTS: Insert Names Here
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: X.509

TYPE: [STANDARD] Security Assertion Markup Language 1.1 (SAML 1.1)
DESCRIPTION: A framework for the exchange of security-related information
PARTICIPANTS: OASIS, Scott Cantor
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: OASIS SAML 1.1

TYPE: [STANDARD] Shibboleth
DESCRIPTION: Shibboleth, a project of Internet2/MACE, is developing architectures, policy structures, practical technologies, and an open source implementation to support secure user access to Web-based resources, enables independent organizations to federate to extend the capabilities of their existing identity-management services, supports multi-organizational federations to enable scalable use of the technology, encourages attribute-based authorization, provides controls to protect the privacy of personal information
PARTICIPANTS:Internet2, Scott Cantor,Steven Carmody, Walter Hoehn, Ken Klingenstein
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: OpenSAML

TYPE: [WHITE PAPER] The Social Web: Creating An Open Social Network with XDI
DESCRIPTION: What is a Social Network? In traditional networking terms, what are being linked are devices or objects: phones, fax machines, computers, documents. The term "social network" implies moving to the next level, where what are being linked are people and organizations. The significance of this evolutionary step is described in a seminal 2003 paper titled "The Augmented Social Network" by Ken Jordan, Jan Hauser, and Steven Foster.
PARTICIPANTS: Drummond Reed, Marc Le Maitre, Bill Barnhill, Owen Davis, and Fen Labalme
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: XDI, XRI

TYPE: [COMPANY] SXIP
DESCRIPTION: A simple, secure and open identity network that enables individuals to create and manage their online digital identities. In addition to supporting ongoing Sxip Network adoption, Sxip Identity is applying its identity management expertise to enterprise solutions. Its first solution, Sxip Access, is an identity and access management tool that allows ASPs to delegate user authentication and provisioning to the enterprise.
PARTICIPANTS: Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, John Diack, COO
SUPPORTED STANDARDS:Sxip Identity believes the Sxip Network will become an integral piece of Identity 2.0 infrastructure and we support Open Source resources related to this: Sxip Network Developer Community site http://sxip.org, Sxip Network Membersite Developer Kits for Perl, PHP, Python, and Java Sxip Network Java , Homesite Package Mailman, Bugzilla, Drupal, Qwiki, Bitflux CMS

TYPE: [COMPANY] Trusted Computing Group (TCG)
DESCRIPTION: The Trusted Computing Group was formed in 2003 to develop and support open industry standards for trusted computing across multiple platform types. To enable open standards development, the group is incorporated, has a patent policy and provides industry advocacy programs, including a logo and marketing program. Information on how to join the TCG can be found at www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/join/ . TCG has approximately 95 members from across computing, including component vendors, software developers, systems vendors and network and infrastructure companies. A complete list is online at www.trustedcomputinggroup.org . The Trusted Computing Group is enabling open and widely available building blocks and common interface stacks that the industry can adopt across multiple platform types and environments. With these open building blocks, the industry can address a range of security needs without compromising functional integrity, privacy or individual rights.
PARTICIPANTS: AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: In general, identity standards such as those from the Liberty Alliance, SAML, NIST/GSA, and Web Services* support a broad range of authentication technologies. TCG is working to have the Trusted Platform Module included as one of the hardware-based tokens for strong authentication. In addition, the advanced TPM functions related to measuring and reporting platform trustworthiness and integrity metrics may be included in the authentication and authorization information which is communicated as part of the federated identity and network access protocols.

TYPE: [SPECIFICATION] WS-Federation (Web Services Federation Language)
DESCRIPTION:A specification, by IBM and Microsoft , for standardizing the way companies share user and machine identities among disparate authentication and authorization systems spread across corporate boundaries. WS-Federation is part of an overall effort by IBM and Microsoft to build a Web services security framework, or WS-Security.
PARTICIPANTS: (Add Names Here)
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: [4/2/05] This is an initial public draft release and is provided for review and evaluation only. BEA, IBM, Microsoft, RSA Security and VeriSign hope to solicit contributions and suggestions in the near future. BEA, IBM, Microsoft, RSA Security and VeriSign make no warrantees or representations regarding the specifications in any manner whatsoever.

TYPE: [SPECIFICATION] Xhtml Friends Network (XFN)
DESCRIPTION:XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their <a href> tags.
PARTICIPANTS: Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, Matthew Mullenweg
SUPPORTED STANDARDS: (X)HTML

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