Presence and IntComm WG

[Neal McBurnett <>]

Given the discussion today about authentication and web services, here
is a recent message from the head of Internet2's MACE group.  There
has been lots of discussion of this sort of thing recently.  I highly
recommend Dick's presentation that Bob notes below.

This year's OSCON is where Peter Saint-Andre is as we speak.

Peter - what's your impression?  How does jabber fit in this new auth
space?

Cheers,

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
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To: MACE 
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From: RL 'Bob' Morgan 
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Subject: identity 2.0, for registrars

Here at IETF chatting with our good friend Dick Hardt of Identity 2.0 and 
SXiP fame (if you haven't seen his iconic Identity 2.0 pitch:

  http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/

it's worth the 5 minutes or so), imagine my surprise when he mentioned 
"talking next week at some sort of registrars event".  Indeed he is the 
keynote speaker at

  http://www.aacrao.org/tech06/
  AACRAO Student Services Technology Conference
  July 23 - 25, 2006
  Grand Hyatt Denver
  Denver, Colorado

So we can expect some of our registrars to come home asking what we're 
doing about Identity 2.0.  Not a bad thing necessarily, but all shows the 
power of a good pitch.

 - RL "Bob"

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Identity 2.0

Date/Time: Sunday July 23, 2006 , 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Imperial Ballroom

Session ID: 068
Type: Plenary

Interest Tracks: Emerging Technologies
Committee: Workshop and Special Sessions

Short Description: As more interactions move online and the boundary 
around an institution blurs into the global village, current identity 
management technologies are failing to operate at Internet scale. A new 
user-centric approach, Identity 2.0, is needed. This fast paced keynote 
will provoke discussion and raise more questions than answers on digital 
identity for all constituents in a truly web-connected world.

A pioneer in the Internet sector and open source software community, Dick 
Hardt has been active in software development for nearly two decades. 
Prior to founding Sxip Identity, Dick founded ActiveState in 1997. Under 
his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in open source 
programming languages and anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based 
software company, Sophos in 2003.

Estimated Attendance: 400

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