Moderated by Johannes Ernst, NetMesh, Inc.

User-controlled identity is a rapidly growing technology that promises to dramatically reduce the number of accounts and identifiers consumers have to remember on the converged network, creating many new business opportunities. Complementing traditional identity technologies that have mostly been driven by the enterprise, it seeks to empower the end user to assert all aspects of their identity themselves. Not surprisingly, most of the emerging approaches are driven by URLs that often also function as the user's blog, e.g. OpenID, Light-Weight Identity (LID), Yet Another Decentralized Identity Interoperability System (YADIS) and others.

In this BOF, we will give a very short overview over the state of the market, and then break up in a series of rapid-fire software demos and interactive dialogs by a number of companies working in this space. If you are interested in user-controlled identity, want to learn what works today and what will be available tomorrow with the opportunities that this presents, this is the BOF to attend. If you'd like to have specific questions answered, or if you'd like to let us know that you will be coming, please feel free to contribute to the wiki at:

http://www.socialtext.net/iiw2005/index.cgi
identity_speed_geeking_o_reilly_emerging_telephony_conference