Digital ID World (DIDW) 2007 is on at the San Francisco Hilton from September 24th-26th.
The Liberty Alliance will be there, both for the second annual Identity Deployment of the Year (IDDY) awards and for what promises to be a very interesting Concordia workshop. As this article neatly puts it, Concordia is an open forum bringing together identity system purveyors and those who want to describe particular 'use cases' for their deployment.
This, the third Concordia workshop, will look at use cases and interoperability in the areas of government, energy and higher education. My own experience is that each of these is a highly significant area in its own right:
- in the public sector, there's never been more activity centred around questions of identity and interoperability - particularly concerning the inchoate relationship between public- and private-sector credentials and their interchange for accessing services.
- questions of energy usage, energy independence, sustainability and 'off-setting' are extremely topical, and it's not hard to foresee requirements for both interoperability between suppliers of fungible energy sources, and trans-national schemes. Issues of personal charging and auditability can't be far below the surface.
- in higher education, I'm keenly aware (not least from last week's TERENA workshop in Prague) that the issues of interoperability, trust and federation are pressing, and are being debated with great insight.
Personally, I'm delighted to see that not only is the IDDY programme continuing to find new implementations to celebrate, but Liberty is also finding new and relevant ways in which to contribute to DIDW and the identity community at large.
I can't be there myself, I'm afraid, and the glee of getting the words 'inchoate' and 'fungible' into a single blog post doesn't really make up for it.
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