Empowering People and the Coming Layer of Identity (Link to Slides)

win-win-win for Citizens – Applications & Communities & Operators

People are empowered with their identifiers get good service at reasonable rates along with the Freedom to Access the tools they want to on the network (free from operator interference and packet discrimination)
Application Builders and Service Providers can innovated new tools that work on the web and mobile devices.

Operators can have a business model that is more then just bit-haulers. They have a special relationship with the customer which means they can leverage:

• Authenticated End-points to physical devices.
• be OpenID / Identity Providers
• the Billing Relationship with the customer and the asset of their billing system they can open up to others.

Here is a list of Further Resources in the talk.
Identity Commons

OpenID

i-names

Card Space and Laws of Identity

Higgins

OSIS

Johannes Ernst who presented namespaces out of control.

Andre’s Diagram of Identity and Payment Networks converging.

EVENTS

Identity Commons Community

Internet Identity Workshop May 14-16, Mountainview

Identity Open Space April 26-27, Brussels

International Telecommunications Union Focus Group on Identity Management

Basically dealing with How do Network-centric, Application-Centric and User-Centric Identity Play well together?

Wiki on the last meeting Feb 13-16

April 23-25 Geneva

May 16-18 Mountainview

Technorati Tags: etel, etel07, identity, Identitycommons, Identitygang

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