The Internet Identity Workshop is coming up May 12-4 ... this will be 6th event. Phil has an announcement up - where you can find the gif to post on your blog

If you want to sponsor please contact Phil.

If you would like to help with the design - figuring out what happens Monday and some other time sculpting contact me - we are going to have a call this week to discuss.

I am really excited about this event for a few reasons. Things are happening - in a major way

• Card Selector tools and technologies are being build and tested.
• Convergence is happening (U-prove being bought by MSFT)
• OpenID is becoming the new hot 'buzz word' according to my blogging friends and heard randomly in conversations in the valley by young 'trying to start a company types' to impress VC types.
• The social issues are percolating in new ways and 'demand' for the movement of personal data is gaining real traction (dataportability.org).
• The OECD paper was just published that I had read small parts of before many months ago.
• The Venn of Identity Paper written by Drummond and Eve is being published by the IEEE this month.
• the IDTrust event that recently happened - went well and included many projects that have a home at IIW - hopefully some new folks will attend from the activities.
• New people like Ryan are finding the problem of identity and learning about what is going on - and then explaining it.
• Working groups founded at IIW - namely Enterprise Positioning and Newbies 4 Newbies both have mailing lists (Newbies, IdPositioning) and are holding regular calls.
• The more vendor oriented day will happen on May 15th following IIW - it will be the 2nd Data Sharing Summit co-produced by Laurie Rae and I.
• New social features on the web create new social practices - twitter, pounce, personal action or news feeds.
• VRM is progressing and making presentations to 'shift' business logic.