IIW 15 Opening Session

CREDENTIAL

• A statement or token from a trusted party about the bearer
• A document of achievement or licence issued to a person
• A set of attributes who’s authenticity is asserted by a trusted third party
• A proof of identity required to gain access to a protected resource
• Digital form of attributes about an individual/entity
  • Immutable OR
  • Aquired
• Reputation + proven track record (Verifiable)
• Verb – the act of vetting identity of a subject and assigning a reusable artifact that can be used to make Auth decision.
• Noun – An Artifact (token) that represents a subject that has been authenticated.
• Level of assurance associated to an identity
• Item used to identify an individual
• One or more objects which when combined with an identifier may be used to authenticate an entities identity.
• Something a user knows, has or is which can be used to positively identify them by a third party.

• Unique Identified of someone
• A verifiable accomplishment
• Unique Identity of someone
• Something about someone
• A government-issued identifier associated with a unique person
• A validated form of identity information
• Identification of a person/entity
• Physical Keys
• 1) Relying party 2) Issuing Authority 3) Bearer
• an asserted statement of knowledge form a trusted third party
• logical keys
• An individually unique characteristic, word/phrase or physical token that is associated with that person
• A thing that permits that prossesor to do something they couldn’t do if they lock.
• Means for authentication to a system
• Information to authorize
• A token to allow someone to access / use a service
• A unique identifier of association with an identity

  TRUST

• Something gained (or ?) based on track record, consistency, wisdom and presence.
• A feeling of comfort between two parties.
• Security that you will not be compromised
• Assurance against impersonation
• Something politicians lose when they open their moths in November.
• Earned, proxy, referred, viral
• Trust is: You will be punished if you lie to me or somebody else I trust.
• No Trust ←→ No social society
• Something of value <3
• A black-box entity, the internals of which are intended to remain obscure, whose actions and results are agreed – in advance – to be (at least) acceptable to all subscribing parties
• Predictable behavior by any other party
• That the information presented is not deceptive and I have confidence in its source.
• Operates in your “best interest”
• A short-cut to building a contract
• To rely on another
• A willingness to accept without further discussion or independent verification, an assertion of a correspondent.
• Confidence that I am hearing and seeing is factual and with not cause me harm.
• A feeling of stability W|R|T another
• Freedom from fear <3
• Behavior between or among individuals yielding confident sharing of sensitive information.
• Something validated by many things.
• Verb – to expose yourself to another with conviction that they will behave well.
• Noun – Conviction that something/someone will behave well.

  FEDERATION

• A collection of identity systems used by multiple parties that interoperates.
• The “good guys” on Star Trek
• The political body of planet governments on Star Trek
• Cooperation and Interoperation to a common standard and policies to achieve a goal.
• In many US geographies the colloquial name for the local umbrella giving organization of the Jewish community
• A trusted Network
• A cooperative striving for a similar goal
• Acceptance of credentials issued by other members of a group. Issuance and acceptance of credentials for/by other members of a group
• Traditional Federation contract + traditional bilateral contract
• Open Federation opt-in Behavioral alignement
• Federation allows for decentralization of distributed systems, makes use of but is not dependent on single relying entities that can disappear.
• Joint cause – to be aligned of in league with one anther.
• Requires cooperation, agreement, trust interoperability better entities
• An internal network organizational entity or legal relationship designed to enable coordinated action by independent compotnents who share values policies or expressed mission standards.
• Skeletal Structure
• Something that provides structure
• Relationship between entities
• Noun – the relationships between entities in a given context and…
• Common Structure
• A set of require elements used to build a stable ctructure
• Structure of design principles/ design constraints
• An agreement – shared by both providers and users
• A set of accepted consider and constraints that inform a shared agreement/ input
• Purpose built
• Constraints and Incentives
• A bounded environment within which a given community agrees to operate according to common rules.
• Set of rules, policies, mechanisms creating a common platform.
• Verb – to place boundaries around a thing “ we frameworked like crazy, that identity problem”
• Design constraints.

  PRIVACY

• confidentiality
• “everybody’s got something to hide” ‘cept for me and my monkey. That thing I spend to little thinking about because lea like the beatle’s song….?
• The desire to maintain confidentiality with the freedom of choice as to when and with whom to share that which is considered confidential.
• An element of safety in information exchange
• secure networks
• the absesnes of others

physical isolation

• ability to control who can see me naked

expectation

• something kids don’t understand or see the value of
• The exception that control over information about you will be respected by others

Control

• No leek of info
• Protecting personal information from unauthorized disclosure.
• The privileged to withhold information
• The control that we have over our data actions spaces and thereabouts w.r.t. their publicity and sharing
• That which remains unclear only a specified individual or groups control.
• The ability to protect information.
• The ability to selectively control who knows secrets.

Privacy Right

• A basic human right that when respected would ensure our freedoms as we know them today.
• Right to decide what I wish to share with others
• The right to control the flow of your personal data

User control

• Anonymity

Privacy

• Extremely selective secrecy
• Having things personal to me held in confidence and respected
• Mind your own business
• User managed access to pii
• User consent
• The freedom to act without others having knowledge of your actions.
• Disclosure control.

User control

• User controlled sharing of their information
• User allows what can and can’t be shared.
• The ability to decide who knows who you are what you have and what you’re doing.
• Controlled information by the individual
• User Control
• Protected Information
• Community defined, Controlled Information
• Control outgoing information flow
• A verifiable accomplishment
• Respecting social boundaries and conventions
• Having my boundaries respected

SECURITY

• Perception
  • Feeling of safety
  • Comfort with situation
  • Confidence in a condition
  • Something that provides confidence to transact/get data moving etc. etc. etc.
  • A state of minimal risk
  • Feeling of safety and assurance
  • A state of well-being
• Rules control
  • The art/science of protecting a resource
  • The ability to protect assets
  • A trust relationship
  • Data encryption
  • A set of rules which is tough to solve with existing commuting dowes
  • Method/procedures that allow a user to believe that he/she knows what is happening with their data.
  • Protects the access to the resources by applying set of control rules.
  • Survival in hostile environment
  • Protection against attack.
  • Able to prevent intrusions.
  • The dept in charge of prevention.
  • Knowing enough about who you are dealing with to make the risk of continuing manageable.
  • Providing controlled access
  • Making sure valuable things are protected
  • The scheme associated with managing one’s identity and infrastructure.
  • Protection of resources
  • User access management
  • People, process, technology to auncoratic risk.
  • Security is a state of feeling that nothing or no one out there CAN exploit/misuse/confiscate anything you rightfully own.
  • Knowing your future in secure.
  • Establishment of confidence for an individual or entity’s actions “to be sure”
  • Never having an unencrypted copy of your vital info on someone else’s server.

ECOSYSTEM

• Mutual benefit
• Holistic computing world

Symbiotic

Mutually beneficial

Balance

• A network of systems which collaborate with each other to attain certain objectives.
• A number of ecosystem individual interacting elements interdependent.
• Decentralized cooperation.
• Biological environment that supports a variety of symbiotic life forms

Interoperable

• Framework for interop
• Technical systems and interactions between similar business systems

Evolving

• Stuff that needs each other

Decentralized

Diversity

• Diversity Inclusive

Common Rules

• Evolving over time

Momentum

Survival

Holistic

• Ecosystem = Community
• Community
• A more balanced Fronted and backend system

Interdepence

Cooperation

Collaboration

Interacting

• Trust
• A system with balance where each entity performs their own role and depends on each other implicit trust and trade offs

Trust

• The Milieu in which all things eat and, in turn, are eaten.
• A group of entities working together mutually benifiting
• An organized arrangement of interrelated actors
• Environment where competing and complimentary systems interact
• System of systems
• Interdependent entities and how they act and react to each other and their environment
• An interdependent group of entities whose activities feed and aid the growth of the entities around them
• The plural for an assembly of more than one eco a system of ecos, ecosystem
• Natural biological definition: A network of living systems that interact and interdependent upon each other forming a wholistic community of life.
• Identity Ecosystem: Multiple domains of identity systems including business, legal and technical layers and participants, that cross-boundaries and interact as a whole.
• A set of interdependent organiz
• The interactions and relationships between entities in a closed system
• A collection of interdepend things.
• Collection of players in the industry who each contribute a part for the complete industry to exist.
• An environment containing a collection of species and organisms
• An interrelated, interconnections, and interdependence complex of individual organisms considered as a whole.

IDENTITY

Identity characteristics - unique that differentiate an individual for all other.

• Personality, characteristics, and mindset of an individual.
• Set of attributes uniquely representing an indivdiaul
• How I perceive myself
• How other perceive me
• The notion of who or what someone or something is
• The way I am
• The different ways others think or recognize who I am
• Who you can be proven to be
• Refers to the entity that can assert prove who you are.
• Depends on who you ask
  • Authenticaiton
  • Authorization
  • Sense of self
  • Identification
  • Biometric matching/scanning

• Who you are
• Persona is a relationship (Identity in Context)
• That which can be identified
• A collection of personas and attributes which are bound to a single unique entity (entity can be a human being, a group etc).
• What you know about me
• Who I am, within a certain context.
• The essence of me!
• The being my parents named at my birth and only I have the right to re-name
• The being whom only I have the full right to name
• A handle used to communicate with me
• A context for interactions and trust
• The sum total of all that an individual entity is, physically and virtually
  • Every thing an entity touches
• A set of properties that define or describe who you are.
• The individual set of attributes that make up that self.
• The attributes associated with an entity that in total describe its unique and important qualities in a given context.
• The sum total of an the information that is associated with or known about you.
• Who I am, my behaviors, my actions, everything I touch and interact with in the physical world and virtual

  REPUTATION

• What others think of you
• A first impression based on historical information
• Known history of a thing or person
• Expectation to produce results (if good)
• Record of past actions
• What people remember about X
• Measure of quality as defined by a peer group.
• The socially constructed qualified associated with an entity
• What systems remember about you
• What others say about you
• A means to regulating access or permissions
• What people think of you
• The impression of someone/something in people’s mind
• What entities (apps etc) know via trust marks or certification about other apps
• The sum of your actions and interactions with others
• Your skills, interest, morals summarized
• An interpretation of one’s accumulated past/historical activities
• Reputation is how other people perceive me.
• What others think about you.
• What people think they know about you.
• The mirror for everything
• The trust for everything
• Public rating from mass audience
• Combined set of expectations about an individuals or a group’s performance and behavior.
• Reputation is an external view of an individual, it can be at a general level or quite specific.
• Deep insight of behavior from close community
• The essence of what you are best/most known for