Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:

> I would like to hear a bit more background about these activities, see
> https://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/internet_society_j
> oins_liberty_alliance_management_board

Hannes -

<ISOC hat on>

As stated in the press release, ISOC has joined the the Liberty Alliance 
Board. Our participation here is directly related to the ISOC initiative 
on Trust and Identity (T/Id). Our primary interest is not just the Liberty 
Alliance itself but a proposed transition to a broader organization. This 
effort is currently called either IDTBD or NewOrg in the community 
discussions. The intent is to open participation to new entrants and 
technologies and NewOrg will also help represent emerging identity 
management work to end-users, policymakers, enterprise adopters, and 
others.

ISOC has been actively reaching out to many of the current identity 
technology communities as part of our effort to understand what "managed 
identity" will mean for end users. We also have some interest in how the 
frameworks and use cases developing in user managed identity communities 
may overlap and inform more traditional networked identity/identifier 
problems. I believe that ISOC support for this move to an open community 
lead forum will help bring this important work to a broader audience and 
will encourage greater participation and interoperability (high priorities 
for T/Id work: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/mission/initiative/trust.shtml)

The transition to a "NewOrg" is still in process, and the founding 
documents: by-laws, operating procedures, IPR considerations, etc., were 
reviewed at the recent Liberty Alliance Plenary and continue to progress. 
(see: http://groups.google.com/group/idtbd)

- Lucy

> Thanks!
>
> Ciao
> Hannes
>
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