PlanetWork Monthly Networking September 21, 2006

Join us if you are:

A technologist who wants to work for the greater good.
Working on the greater good, and you believe in the positive power of the internet and technology.
You just want to get energized by some excellent people and presentations!

Kaliya Hamlin—Identity Woman
http://www.identitywoman.net

Great stuff has been happening in User-Centric Identity latetly. Kaliya just recieved the Digital Identity Award for her community contributions and will share with Planetwork the latest community developments. Including what is user-centric, are we any closer to SSO? Is there code I can use? What is going on with Identity Commons these days? I heard microsoft is doing something called cardspace is that a good thing?

Johannes Ernst—The Emerging Open-Source Identity System
http://netmesh.info/jernst

Many digital identity technologies have been built over the years, from Microsoft Passport and the Liberty Alliance specifications to newer approaches such as Microsoft Cardspace, Higgins, LID and OpenID. In the last year, much of the industry's attention has shifted from proprietary, top-down developments to open-source, grass-roots adoption. At the Digital Identity World conference last week, for the first time, people started talking about the emergence of *The* Open-Source Digital Identity System, supported by many name-brand vendors, and comprised of many open source identity projects that, together, are becoming multi-protocol, user-centric and broadly interoperable. The outline of the technology for a Digital Identity Big Bang is becoming visible -- and the industry is getting itself organized to be ready. Johannes Ernst is the founder/CEO of NetMesh Inc., which develops Web 2.0 technologies. He invented of LID, and is a contributor to the Yadis and OpenID initiatives. He also co-initiated, with Microsoft and Verisign, the OSIS ("Open Source Identity System") initiative whose steering committee now includes Cordance, IBM, Microsoft, NetMesh, Novell, Oracle, Ping, Red Hat, Shibboleth, Socialphysics, Sun, Sxip and Verisign, and which was just chartered under the reconstituted Identity Commons.

Lauren Gelman—Center for Internet and Society
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/gelman/

Lauren is the Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. She will speak for 15 min at the beginning of evening presentations about the issues surrounding net neutrality. This critical issue arose durring the last session of congreass and will be on thet agenda again this fall.

Eugene Kim—Blue Oxen Associates
http://www.eekim.com/blog/

HyperScope (http://hyperscope.org/) is an open source, high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents on the Web in sophisticated ways. It's the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is written entirely in JavaScript. Eugene will explain how to use it and why it's important.

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