Here are the slides for my introduction for the Identity Panel at Supernova. The reason explained OpenID was to level set for the audience what was happening in the market today that was obvious. I also contextualized it within a whole community of collaborative work - so much activity not enough time on an introduction to the basics to dive into. If you want to see the whole panel on BlogTV here it is.

I also have a longer talk that I gave at Web 2.0 that goes into more detail about some of the social issues and where the technology is. This a PDF of the text of my talk..

Further Resources on the Final Slide.

Identity Commons wiki.idcommons.net
Laws of Identity identityblog.com
OpenID openid.net
Pamela Project pamelaproject.com

OSIS osis.netmesh.org
Higgins Project eclipse.org/higgins
Bandit Project bandit-project.org
Liberty Alliance projectliberty.org
Concordia Project projectconcordia.org

Internet Identity Workshop
#5 Dec 3 - 5, 2007
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