The Tenth Internet Identity Workshop in May, 2010 was the largest ever. We have had inquiries from community members on the East Coast of the US and in Europe have been lobbying us to bring the event to their locations. We are happy to confirm that we are going host IIW's in Washington, DC and London.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please take some action if you like IIW and are reading this. IIW is been about the community that attends and participates year round in the activities of groups that use the event to get real work done and move the industry and vision of user-centric identity that works for people forward.
So with these events upcoming Phil, Doc and I need your help in spreading the word to your collegues on the East Coast and in Europe who would enjoy the event.
To help you do this we have several tools and options.
Blog badges for specific events. (These are two of them their are more on the wiki)

For IIW-East September 9-10 in Washington DC
- A Venue! the Josephine Butler Parks Center (a 10min walk from the Columbia Heights Metro)
- an Invitation up online
- Registration is up here and Early Bird ends August 6th.
- an invitation designed to be send via e-mail
- RSVP on Social Networks - LinkedIN, Upcoming, Facebook

For IIW-Europe, October 11 in London we have
- A still being developed invitation up on the IIW site
- Registration is live Early bird ticket sales end August 31
- RSVP on Social Networks: LinkedIN, Upcoming, Facebook
- Twitter List (it will be a bit small until we have more registrations)
For IIW #11 in Mountain View, November 9-11
- We have a simple invitation up online
- Registration is live Super Early bird ticket sales end August 31
If you value IIW and the conversations that happen there please take some initiative and reach out to colleagues to spread the word about these events. Because of the community focus of the events we rely strongly on community word of mouth to let people know about them.
It would be great to have community ideas put forward for the main IIW invitation articulating the current foci of conversations.



Anonymous Identity is on one end of the identity spectrum--basically you use an account or identifier every time go to a Web site--no persistence, no way to connect the search you did last week with the one you did this week.
Typically when logging in with OpenID on the consumer Web you share your URL with the site you are logging into--they redirect you to where that is hosted on the Web--you authenticate (tell them your password for that account) and they re-direct you back to the site you were logging in. (
When you go to login to a site you are asked to share not "your URL" but just the name of the site where your account is--Yahoo! or Google or MySpace etc. you are re-directed to that site and from within your account a "directed identity" is created--that is a unique ID just for that Web site. Thus you get the convenience of not having to manage multiple accounts with multiple passwords and you get to store preferences that might be shared across multiple ID's but you don't have identifiers that correlate--that are linked across the Web.
How do these go together--you can take a verified identity claim say your birth date then using cryptography strip the specifics away and just have a claim that says you are "over 21". Then using an anonymous identifier you have selectively disclosed your age without giving away your date of birth.


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We are not at War
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I was the first person Van asked to speak at the Community Leadership Summit West Ignite talks. I was the last person to submit my slides. I have a lot to say about community but I had a hard time figuring out exactly what to say. I knew I wanted to talk about the identity community and our success in working together. Robert Scoble's quote really got me going and I decided to use the talk to respond to the comment that was catalyzed by his facebook post/tweet "Who is going to win the Identity War of 2010"
This is completely the wrong frame to foster community collaboration.