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Identity Commons is a community of groups working on developing the identity and social layer of the web. We are loosely connected sharing a common purpose and principles. Our main community gathering is the Internet Identity Workshop that happens twice a year.

We create opportunities for both innovators and competitors, for both the big guy and the small fry to come together in a safe and balanced space.

Our organizational forms are diverse including:

  • several dozen people on a mailing list
  • nonprofit foundations behind particular technologies
  • open source projects part of other foundations
  • autonomous projects working on market advocacy and development

We formed to facilitate information sharing and coherence this space and to support interoperability and convergence around open standards.

Registration Now Open for
2012 NIST/NSTIC IDtrust Workshop

Posted Jan 26th, 2012 by jayunger

March 13-14, 2012 at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

This promises to be an important event for the digitial identity community and perhaps a milestone in progress on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

Don't Miss Out – Online Registration is NOW Open 
Click here for further details

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New Approaches for Transaction-based Assurance

Posted Oct 11th, 2011 by Mary Ruddy

As more organizations look to implement systems that require authentication at higher levels of assurance, there has been increased interest in transaction-based assurance.

Recently OASIS launched the Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) Technical Committee  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/trust-el/charter.php. The initial deliverable is a comprehensive list of current methods to authenticate identities online to the degree necessary for high value and sensitive transactions. This is expected to be a key input to new real world solutions that use a step-up approach to multi-factor authentication. 

Now AT&T has come out with Personal Levels of Assurance (PLOA), a white paper that introduces a new approach for determining transaction-based assurance.PLOA White Paper – v1.01

I'm looking forward to discussing this and other topics next week at IIW in Mountain View.

 

 

 

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NSTIC NOI Response Period Extended to August 31, 2011

Posted Aug 19th, 2011 by jayunger

The NSTIC National Program Office at the U.S. Department of Commerce has extended the deadline for reponse to it's Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the governance forms for the NSTIC ecosystem. The original  ( http://www.nist.gov/nstic/nstic-frn-noi.pdf ) from its original date of July 22nd, 2011 to August 30th, 2011. Below is the Federal Register Notice announcing that extension. Note that the notice below specifically says that only electronic submissions will be accepted during this extended period. 

There are already over 45 responses that had been received prior to the original deadline and that have been posted in PDF form at the NSTIC web site at http://www.nist.gov/nstic/governance-comments.html

I am also advised that anyone who posted a prior response and that feels the need to ammend or update their submission can also do so during this extension period.


[Federal Register: August 16, 2011 (Volume 76, Number 158)]
[Notices]
[Page 50719]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology

[Docket No. 110524296-1455-02]

Models for a Governance Structure for the National Strategy for
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace--Extension of Due Date for Comments

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United
States Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: NIST is extending the deadline for submitting comments
regarding the governance structure for the National Strategy for
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) to 3 p.m. Eastern Time, August
30, 2011. NIST will accept only electronic submissions during the
extended time period.

 

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