The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on identity in the large. Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that may or may not have any kind of formalized relationship is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization. Many have argued that the lack of a credible identity infrastructure will eventually result in the Internet being so overrun with fraud as to make it useless for many interesting uses.
To solve this problem, or pieces of it, companies and individuals have made a variety of architectural and governance proposals. Some of these include:
The goal of the Internet Identity Workship is to provide a forum to disucss these and other architectural and governance proposals for Internet-wide identity services and their underlying philosophies. The workshop will comprise a day of presentations on Internet-scale identity architectures followed by a day of structured open space to accommodate the range of topics and issues that will emerge from day one and other issues and identity services that do not fit into the scope of the formal presentations.
We invite presentations for the first day on the following topics:
Other topics related to these should be suggested to the organizers before submitting a proposal.
If you're interested in making a presentation the first day, please send a 250-300 word abstract along with a descriptive title and author names to iiw2005@googlegroups.com before September 2, 2005. Presentations will be approximately 30 minutes including questions. Our goal is to give as many people a chance to present their ideas in the time allowed, but we anticipate that not all proposals will be able to accomodated.
If your proposal is accepted, we will expect, in addition to your presentation, that you will also write a paper (HTML preferred) describing your ideas so that they can be referenced by people who cannot attend and provide a record of the conference. We also expect to record the proceedings and plan to make the audio available online.
IIW is being organized by:
There are no formal sponsors for the event. Our goal is to keep the workshop vendor-neutral.
The workshop will be held at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, CA on October 26 and 27th.
The cost for the event is $75 per person to cover the cost of the venue, organization, snacks and lunch both days. We encourage you to pre-register since we will limit attendance at the event to 75 people. Click here to register.