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Successes
Phil Windley, Kaliya Hamlin and Doc Searls produce the Internet Identity Workshop twice a year. One way to track the vector of developments in user-centric identity is to record the milestones of the workshop each year. This is Phil Windley's characterization of the developments (based on some earlier comments from Johannes Ernst):

#1 Oct 2005: initial meeting and introductions to projects being worked on.

#2 May 2006: proponents of multiple identity protocols start dialog about how they can work together

#3 Dec 2006: small-scale interoperability and some consolidation

#4 May 2007: interoperability demonstrations of Information Cards and lightweight solutions converge on OpenID.

At the 5th IIW in Dec 2007 OpenID, CardSpace, and SAML, along with supporting technologies, projects, and consortia are accepted. The questions have become what to do now that these foundational technologies have been worked out.

This was December 3-5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

This event was a real mile stone for the community - some described it as reaching the "end of the beginning" for the community. OpenID 2.0 had its IPR issues settled and the spec declared final. The first real in-depth meeting of the minds of that group had happened at the first IIW in Oct 2005 in Berkeley. Other developments included continuing discussions between OAuth and OpenID about how their two open standards complemented one another and the Higgins project moved closer to a 1.0 release.

At the beginning of the 2007 workshop we engaged in a community conversation about "what we know and what we don't know" out of that came different statements that were available for 'voting' using Dotmocracy. The conference was so good that almost no one had time to read through the ideas posted, but they are captured on a wiki.

At the close of this IIW we had community awards handed out - a range of people were recognized for their efforts in the community both at the event and over the past year. To see who awarded who for what check out this page.

We also gave the first Owen Davis Award to Andrew Nelson and Owen Davis for exemplary dedication to the “good of the community”. They were the founders of the first Identity Commons in 2001.

Notes Pages: Tuesday Wednesday

Blog coverage was not as much for this event as there has been in the past. It is never too late to post reflections - here are some.

There was a video recap produced by Been Verified

Thank You to our sponsors to date:
AOL, Novell, Microsoft, British Telecom, Liberty Alliance Project, Google, Verisign, Plaxo, Adobe, Cisco, OASIS IDtrust, CommerceNet, SXIP, Higgins Project, Bandit Project, Vidoop, Applied Identity, Authentrus, Planetwork, ClaimID

Breakdowns
The Monday evening dinner venue was too small and the music was too loud at the Tuesday evening venue. These problems will be remedied for future workshops.

Requests

• Please add more notes/reflections on the wiki if you have some about a session you were at. Please blog about IIW 2007b and add to the blog coverage.
• We need to know dates to avoid when booking our Fall workshop. PLEASE let us know ASAP if there are events planned we should not conflict with.
• We would like your help inviting others to participate. Please don't be shy to invite those who may have an interest in Identity Commons.

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