Speaking on OpenSSO at Planetwork Thursday July 28th 2005

I’ll be speaking on OpenSSO at Planetwork in San Francisco next Thursday, July 28th 2005. Here is the complete announcement I received from Kaliya Hamlin:

July Planetwork FOCUS on DIGITAL IDENTITY TOOLS
Thursday, July 28th doors at 6, program at 7, networking from 8-10
CIIS, Namaste Hall,3rd Floor, 1453 Mission St. San Francisco (2 blocks from Civic Center BART) - map

Kaliya Hamlin, the Identity Woman, curated this line up that provides a great opportunity to learn more about some of the latest tools for next generation digital identity.

Light Weight Identity - LID
Johannes Ernst NetMesh Inc.
Light-Weight Identity(tm)– LID(tm)– a new and very simple digital identity protocol that puts users in control of their own digital identities, without reliance on a centralized party and without approval from an “identity provider”.

OpenID
Brad Fitzpatrick Six Apart, Ltd.
OpenID, a decentralized identity system, but one that’s actually decentralized and doesn’t entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business. An OpenID identity is just a URL.

Sun Single Sign On
Pat Patterson Sun Microsystems
Sun is announcing the intention to open source web single sign-on. This project, called Open Web Single Sign-On, or OpenSSO, gives developers access to the source code to these basic identity services allows them to focus on innovations that solve more urgent problems, such as securely connecting partner networks, ensuring user privacy, and proving compliance.

Opinity, Inc
Ted Cho
Opinity provides what might be called open reputation for end users. It is a young start up offering free online reputation management related services so that individuals can authenticate, aggregate, and mobilize their website (eBay, Amazon, etc.) reputations. Opinity also offers reputation management tools so that individuals can monitor, build, and work to enhance their own reputation going forward. Individuals can also review other individuals at the Opinity website.

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So, come along, throw a few bucks into the basket, listen to me and my fellow speakers and stay for a chat.