EIC2008 Workshops

This morning I was at the VRM unworkshop at the EIC2008 conference. What I understood there was that VRM is about principles for service providers that serve my claims.
- what are the logging and privacy contraints ?
- can administrators see my data ?
etc

Whether this concept will be a success, I don't know. I think that most users don't understand what and how much and to whom and under what conditions they should give away claims or not. So in the sense of making a deal with the web-shop (I give you claims and you don't bother me with advertisements that make no sense to me) I think that this is desirable but I think that most users will give away too much claims with uncertain conditions what the RP does with this data.

Later I joined the Liberty Alliance Standards workshop. Interesting talks there too. One talk I really liked was the one from my colleague, Michael Gärtner, who demoed the federation from a T-Home online account to a T-Mobile account. This facilitates the current connection the user uses to protect the login. So if you are using your home DSL connection then this access is used as a second factor for your T-Home account. And If you have a T-Mobile internet connection using your mobile phone then that access is used as a second factor for your T-Home authentication. I like that.

OSIS Interop Showcase at EIC2008

Wednesday and Thursday are the days to be in Munich to attend the 2nd European Identity Conference. Kuppinger and Cole were so kind to provide space and a WLAN and time and marketing people for the first post RSA interop. We will demonstrate interoperability during the last two hours of the expo opening time each day. Most of the RSA interop sites are up and working. The results of this interop go into the main RSA results table.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the day of interesting pre-conference workshops. I will attend the workshop "VRM 2008 - Unconference on Vendor Relationship Management" unorganized by Doc Searls. My colleague from T-Home, Michael Gärtner will present at the Liberty Alliance Standards Workshop. My colleague, Jörg Heuer, will participate in this panel discussion.

First European Identity Award

"Kuppinger Cole + Partner will celebrate the first European Identity Award as part of the European Identity Conference (EIC) 2008, to be held April 22nd to 25th in Munich (www.id-conf.com).
The award will be given in six categories:

• Best innovation in Identity Management
• Best new standard/improved standard in Identity Management
• Best project within the last 12 months: Internal use of Identity Management
• Best project within the last 12 months: B2B use of Identity Management
• Best project within the last 12 months: B2C use of Identity Management
• Best project within the last 12 months: Identity Management in eGovernment

We kindly ask you to make proposals for the latter four categories. Each proposal shall consist of a one page description of the project explaining the project and why the project is, from your point of view, a candidate for the award.

The project has to have been finalized within the last 12 months.
The jury will consist of KCP analysts. The awards will be handed during an evening event at the EIC 2008.
For sure there will be journalists and we will provide press releases about the award.
We will take nominations until March 10th, 2008. Email your nominations directly to Martin Kuppinger.

Please clarify whether the nominees will be available for a best practice presentation during EIC 2008. We would like to see the winners and some close followers as best practice presentations."