IIW IX Review
I continue to be a newbie in the Identity space, so the plenary session the first day is a good map for me as i go throughout the rest of the unconference.
Notes from the plenary session after the cut.
I arrived during the discussion of The Identity Trust Framework by Drummond Reed (Executive Director of the Information Card Foundation) and Don Thibeau (Executive Director of the OpenID Foundation). They were presenting the work the two foundations have done towards Open Trust Frameworks for government. Work has been done to map the established OpenID and Information Card methods to the NIST “Levels of Assurance.” OpenID is LOA 1, Info Cards 1.0 goes up to Non-PKI LOAl 3. (Level 4 is DOD, intelligence, etc.)
I attended the Wednesday session 6-B that continued with this discussion in a (somewhat) smaller more vocal group. Reed & Thibeau noted a few more details, while the audience communicated back that the needs and this particular concepts of trust framework is unclear. Since the slides haven’t been uploaded yet as part of the notes, i’ve uploaded my lousy camera phone shots to flickr.
The second presentation was Eran Hammer-Lahav on Discovery. Much of the immediate twitter reaction was a positive reaction to the slide font and style.The presentation gave an overview of a language for discussing user experience in the abstract — patterns (context), interfaces, and descriptors — by establishing the use of the terms in the physical world (restaurants and menus). Given “descriptor” defined as a collection of patterns, discovery is finding desciptors of something new. Works when we know the pattern. Hammer-Lahav is advocating “WebFinger” for discovery, using the common pattern of an email address for identifying a user. There was continuing buzz about WebFinger but i didn’t attend any sessions on it.
Next Monica Keller of MySpace shared a bit about activitystrea.ms and the salmon protocol. Like WebFinger, these interest me as an end user, but don’t quite map to my professional interests.
Following was a presentation from the Data Portability Project where
Steve Greenberg (presenting) & Elias Bizannes (introducing) shared their Creative Commons inspired “EULA work,” essentially developing a language to describe the interoperability behavior of enduser created data on different sites.
* Four flavors: ** home= authoritative site, permanent storage ** sync ** remote ** none * Three types: ** identity ** media & content ** structure & metadata (iTunes play list)
A question pointed out that the issue of ownership of the data was explicitly passed over.
Finally, two presentations that echoed IIW8 in May: Action Cards with Phil Windley (CTO Kynetx) and Relationship Cards (Paul Trevithick) and then Dean & Doc on Vendor Relationship Management (VRM cf CRM).
At the end of the session Eve & Kalyia took a moment to remember Nick Givotovsky (1965 – July 3 2009) and Don Bowen (1958 – oct 31 2009).
