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Internet Identity Workshop: May 12-14, 2008

I'm a big fan of the Internet Identity Workshop, having attended three previous ones.  Some of my snapshots from those are here on Flickr.

IIW 2008a, the first 2008 workshop is happening next week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.  We are just past the pre-registration discount date, but registration is still open.  Also, the first day, Monday afternoon, May 12, can be attended for free.

There's an extended description of the event on the IIW Wiki.  I must tell you that the open-space format of these workshops is superb and inspiring.  (My absence this year has to do with some serious financial retrenchment and learning to live like self-sufficient retired folk, not out of a lack of interest.  I must carefully focus my energy and any subsistence on immediate projects as I progress through my 70th year.)

There is additional information in posts from the three organizers (or "conveners" as I am learning to say): Identity Woman Kaliya Hamlin, Technometrian Phil Windley, and Mr. Vendor Relationship Management, Doc Searls.

There is much activity in the social-networking world that impinges on requirements for user-centric identity and digital identity.  You've heard about OpenID, Information Cards, and maybe Liberty Alliance and other approaches.  This is the place where folks who are keenly interested in having digital identity work for everyone gather, mingle, and choose what conversational and collaborative itches need to be scratched at the moment.  You can bring your itch here and find some fellow scratchers.  There is a seriously-open, welcoming format and approach.

As an example of the far-reaching interests that come under the IIW tent, Jerry Fishenden just posted on issues of digital identity in civil matters.  And an excessive interest in identity by various parties (not just the UK government) is a common topic, including in today's disturbance about the Washington Post on-line comment policy. 

The nexus for these conversations as well as the nuts-and-bolts of digital identity and identity-system interoperation is IIW, the IIW Wiki, and the Identity Commons umbrella.  Plug yourself in.  Use an OpenID to do it.

posted by orcmid at 5/07/2008 11:50:00 AM