Identity Services

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Identity Services

• CCS DIM Workshop
• Nov 02, 2008

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Summary

• Promise of identity services is to simplify the
  integration of IdM features and capabilities
• Establishing consistent and interoperable
  identity management capabilities within and
  between organizations requires interoperable
  identity services
• Interoperable identity services require
  consistent characteristics and interfaces

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Workshop Themes

• Balance accountability with privacy

Privacy

• Mitigate the panopticon issue

• Privacy policy matching

Discovery Negotiation
Federation

• Mitigate the panopticon issue

• Discovery of unrelated identities
• Long-running negotiations
• Controlled disclosure
• Personal searching

• Across Fixed/Mobile
• Across profiles

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Identity Services Functionality

• Authentication
• Authorization
• Trust
• Discovery
• Security
• Privacy
• Invocation
• Metadata

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Tensions

• A theme to emerge from the workshop was the
  challenge of balancing various forces in tension
• Accountability privacy
• Usability privacy
• Security simplicity
• New crypto installed base of clients