Kaliya has been working on cultivating open standards for user-centric identity since 2004.
She co-founded, co-produces and facilitates the Internet Identity Workshop, the primary venue for collaboration amongst large internet portals, large Enterprise IT companies and small innovators.
Technologies in the community include OpenID, OAuth, XRD, Information Cards, SAML, Portable Contacts, XRI, XDI, Open Social, Activity Streams, DiSo etc.
Identity CommonsThe community supporting collaboration amongst various tecnical efforts and addressing social and legal issues that arise with online digital identity.
The Higgins Projectis an open source project based at the Eclipse Foundation working on many key components including identity selectors in Air.
The Pamela Project is working on relying party code for information cards.
The ID-Legal group is working on supporting a critical dialogue between technologists and the legal community as the technologies are developed.
KIds Online is working on supporting a real dialogue about kids online issues - with real professional community manaagers.
The VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) Projectlead by Doc Searls is moving forward the idea that citizens need tools to interact with the vendors they do business with - the reciprocal of CRM.
The Interent Identity Workshopis the main gathering of the identity community. It is an unconference so the agenda is made the day it happens.