Identity Trust Charter

'''Identity Trust
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Purpose
A working group which is focused on the research and development of data policy transparency. This working group is directly addressing a glaring need for information equality and a better understanding of the epistemology of identity management. Identity Trust as a working group is intended to facilitate a discussion about the legitimacy of current laws, regulatory systems, and identity management technology, as clear, easy to understand and usable transparency over organizational policy is lacking. Research and developments in this area will be a starting point in addressing many issues surrounding identity that are not clear due to a lack of transparency over the management of personally identifiable information. Eg. individuals are forced to sign organization-centric privacy policies/terms of use which places limitations on the information that can be shared clearly illustrating a lack of information equality. The current poor quality of consent on-line is just an example of the lack of legitimacy in current information architectures.

Principles

 * 1) Promote discussion of universal accessibility for identity access and notice, including those that are unable; digitally challenge and have their consent implied for them
 * 2) Organise collaborative technical discussion regarding technical development of a directory  to display measured access and ownership

Practices
It is intended that in 2009 Identity Trust will conduct research in the development of providing transparency over personal information policy. This is intended to be both a quantitative content analysis of policy, and qualitative cross sectional surveys focused on understanding the impact transparency has on the development of personal policy.

If you would like to get involved or know of any existing research or R&D projects in this specific area, please email me mark@smartspecies.com, or join the mailing list.

Requirements of Participation and How to Join
Membership is open to anyone who is interested in putting the law and policy together to create a secure, user-centric identity legal framework.

Anyone may join by signing up at http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/identitytrust

If you are interested in getting more involved than participating in these discussions, then access to a working group project website is available; email mark@smartspecies.com for access. Generally, volunteer efforts would go into planning discussion, consolidating analysis, and disseminating this to other projects. Sponsorship in time, effort, collaboration, materials, research and resources is welcome.

Please feel invited to edit this wiki and add your name to the list of people who read this mailing list, this is the most important sponsorship of all. All sponsorship would need to clearly enable the charter of this working group, including the principles which guide it. Sponsorship will be posted clearly on this wiki in the charter.

Licenses and/or Restrictions on Usage of Work Product
Conversation on the list is private to the list. Permission must be granted by the author to republish. The contents of the wiki are licensed under Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ There may be a Lexicon 2.0 that continues the Shared Language work.

Dependant on participation and volunteers/sponsorship, collaborative discussion and analysis will be summarised and disseminated for use in other projects. The resulting collaboration will be used to develop the principles of this working group.

Current Meeting Schedule
There are no regular in person meetings. The main activity at this moment is starting this working group anew.

Current Deliverables and Milestones
To discuss community projects which can provide an example of positve privacy.

Current Membership

 * Mark Lizar
 * Nick Givotovsky
 * Louis Monvoisin

Current Sponsorship
ISPI Clips  brought to this working group by Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI)

Current Stewards Council Representative and Alternate
Primary: Mark Lizar Alternate: Nick Givotovsky.

Current Links
Positive Privacy a discussion of best practices

History

 * 2008 Q1 Report Identity Trust