IETF 65 BOF Announcement: Digital Identity Exchange (DIX)

[Dick Hardt]

The following BOF has been approved for the next IETF meeting in  
Dallas, March 19-24.

If someone wanted to present YADIS at the meeting, they would be more  
then welcome.

-- Dick

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Name of the BOF

Digital Identity Exchange (DIX)

Area:

Applications

Chairs:

Lisa Dusseault <lisa at osafoundation.org>
John Merrells <merrells at sxip.com>

Sponsoring Area Directors:

Scott Hollenbeck <shollenbeck at verisign.com>
Ted Hardie <hardie at qualcomm.com>

BOF Description

Objectives

1. To consider the creation of a new IETF working group within the  
Applications Area  titled "Digital Identity Exchange".  The proposed  
charter for such a working group is referenced below.

2. To discuss and hone the scope of a DIX working group.

3. To discuss the architectural requirements that derive from the  
laws of identity identified by ‘The Identity Gang’ at ‘The Berkman  
Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School’. Referenced below.

4. To discuss existing architectural implementations within the  
context of these requirements. An individual submission Internet  
Draft that describes one such implementation is referenced below,  
named ‘draft-merrells-dix-00.txt’

5. To determine if there is enough interest and commitment to form a  
Working Group and if so to then discuss what the specific goals and  
milestones of that working group would be.

BOF Agenda

Introduction and Agenda Discussion (5 min)
Scope Discussion (10 min)
Identity Laws and Architectural Requirements (10 min)
Existing Architecture Presentations (30 min)
Call for Participation (5 min)
Deliverables Discussion (15 min )
Open Discussion (any remaining time)

Documents

Charter Draft: http://dixs.org/index.php/DIX_Charter
DIX Protocol ID: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-merrells- 
dix-00.txt
DIX Protocol ID: http://dixs.org/index.php/DIX_Protocol_ID
Identity Laws: http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2004/12/09/ 
thelaws.html