As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos Consortium (see http://www.kerberos.org/), as Kerberos is a technology developed within the IETF, or to support technologies like OpenID, OAuth, etc. that are closer to the Internet deployment. I am sure your team had a lot of conversations with the IAB on what direction would be better for the Internet (with respect to the creation of an identity layer) but I fear that many in the IETF community are at best not informed about what you are doing and why you believe that this is heading into the right direction. If ISOC wants to understand what "managed identity" will mean for end users then maybe a discussion within the IETF would help to get a better understanding as some of us have been working on this subject for a while. One could even claim that the IETF is also a pretty open forum to discuss these types of things, particularly when they have a high relevance for the Internet. Did nobody come up with the idea about how the IETF could be more actively involved in this space? Ciao Hannes >-----Original Message----- >From: Lucy Lynch [mailto:llynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: 01 March, 2009 19:30 >To: Hannes Tschofenig >Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx >Subject: 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_soc >> iety_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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf