Identity Gang

About
The Identity Gang is a group of folks that found a common interest in user-centric identity and started meeting at events in 2004.

We have an active mailing list of over 500 people. If you would like to join, just make a request to [mailto:community-subscribe@lists.idcommons.net Subscribe].

Prior to January 2, 2009, this list was hosted at idworkshop@googlegroups.com. These list contents are not public but are available to the members of that list (for list members, here is a link to that archive).

We no longer keep a wiki list of all active participants.

We are a Working Group of Identity Commons - see our charter.

Mission
To support the ongoing conversation about what is needed for a user-centric Internet identity layer that supports the whole marketplace, especially individuals.

Events
The Internet Identity Workshop is the main community conference series.

Other Events
Gang members meet together on an ad hoc basis at other industry events:
 * 2008 RSA IdGang Meeting

Information Resources

 * Identity Landscape - Groups Communities and Projects, Conferences, Protocols and Technologies
 * Events - past and upcoming events related to the field.
 * Lexicon - one of our main projects. It was developed so we would have a shared vocabulary to discus user centric identity concepts in this community.
 * Identipedia - Identipedia is a shared space where we can look at a range of definitions from a range of different communities. For example, if there are three different definitions of Trust from three different groups, all three will be listed along with a link to where the definition was drawn from.
 * News Archive tracks major news articles related to identity.
 * Reference - Two main sections: Concepts and Background Papers, Privacy Law and Society
 * Systemic Elements is a list of the key elements in identity systems.

Reports to Stewards Council

 * 2007 Q4 Report Identity Gang
 * 2008 Q1 Report Identity Gang
 * 2008 Q2 Report Identity Gang
 * 2008 Q3 Report Identity Gang