The Identity Metaystem takes a big step forward, let’s hope Europe takes note.

Stephen McGibbon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:40:50 GMT

Mike Jones has just posted the news that the Identity Metasystem Interoperability Version 1.0 specification has been approved as an OASIS standard, with 56 votes in favor and none against. Mike notes that:

Numerous clarifications were incorporated as a result, while still maintaining compatibility with the Identity Selector Interoperability Profile V1.5 (ISIP 1.5) specification.

Information Cards address a real need today and in the future. Kim Cameron, Reinhard Posch and Kai Rannenberg lay this out in their paper “Proposal for a Common Identity Framework: A User-Centric Identity Metasystem” which originally appeared in “The Future of Identity in the Information Society”:

The challenge in Europe is for projects such as Stork to design architectures that will be able to exploit the Identity Metasystem. This is hugely important because it’s a precursor to being able to take advantage of privacy enhancing technologies such as minimal disclosure certificates.

Notes2Self.net : Stork

The Identity Metaystem takes a big step forward, let’s hope Europe takes note.