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Track A Breakout One: Interoperability, Open Identity, and Identity Brokers

06/20/2006  ·  9:00am  >  10:30am
Location: Austin West

It is very likely there will be a new industry of “identity brokers and providers.” Will it become subject to power laws and vendor concentration? Higgins, an open source software framework for identity, offers the promise of a neutral infrastructure for interoperability and openness. But can it succeed? What is it? What are its merits? Its weaknesses? How might new identity systems be used or abused by governments, corporations and large organizations through national identity cards and GUIDs (General Universal Identifiers)?

Philip Windley [bio] [attendr], Brigham Young University (moderator)
Paul Trevithick
[bio] [attendr], Parity Communications
Dr. Nataraj Nagaratnam
[bio] [attendr], IBM
Drummond Reed
[bio] [attendr], Cordance
Michael Graves
[bio] [attendr], Verisign
Mike Jones
[bio] [attendr], Microsoft

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