I am excited that our second set of “official” quarterly reports as been wrangled, compelled, edited and published on the IC blog and in PDF format. If you are wondering what all is happening in the communities work on user-centric identity technology this is the one thing to read and the best part is it is updated very three months. We welcome new groups joining the community – it is a simple process.

We are a community of groups working on addressing the social, legal and technical issues that arise with the emerging, identity, data and social layer of the internet.

Highlights from Q1 2008 Reports

The 6th Internet Identity Workshopis coming up May 12-14, immediately followed by a Data Sharing Summit.

The OpenID Foundation had 5 corporate members join the board – Google, Verisign, Microsoft, Yahoo and IBM. OpenID Japan was founded and guidelines for local chapters are being developed.

OSIS Open Source Identity Systems is working towards the completion of its third major Interop event (at RSA and the European Identity Conference) with 57 projects participating.

XRI 2.0 will be going to a vote within OASIS shortly.

Higgins 1.0 was released on Feb 21st.

Project VRMis leading a 1.5 day workshop at the European Identity Conference and has an active London Chapter. Work continues on the initial text case Personal Address Management

New Groups of Note:

Enterprise Positioning is a community of people inside enterprises who need to understand and explain the application of user-centric identity in that context. page 10

IC Evangelism and Marketing began to help develop clearer messaging for Identity Commons and develop a values statement. page 8

Newbies 4 Newbies have given invaluable feedback on the language used to articulate user-centric identity, helping to improve the Internet Identity Workshop announcement significantly. If you are new to User-Centric Digtial Identity – wondering what they heck is all this stuff – what do these acronyms mean – this is the group for you. page 10

The Photo Group started with three groups on Flickr 1) Identerati Portraits, 2) The Art of Identity and 3) Member Gallery with the photos they have taken. page 11

The Quiet Groups:
IC Collaborative Tools
XDI Commons
Identity Schema
Identity Rights Agreements
Identity Futures
IdMedia Review

PDF of Report

Related posts:

1. Identity Commons Wiki Care and Feeding
2. Newbies 4 Newbies Call Tomorrow
3. What the Heck is Identity Commons?
4. DONE! The IC Working Groups 2007 Q4 Reports and January News
5. Data Sharing Workshop Report