Identity Trust Charter

Name
Identity & Trust

Purpose
The purpose of the Identity & Trust working group is to provide an ongoing collaborative inventory and analysis of current events and their public policy impact on user-centric digital identity. A primary guiding enquiry will be of the technology and policy developments that directly affect the security, control and value of personal information.

Further community topics shall include, but not be limited to: information self-determination, consent for the disadvantaged and unable, digital identity rights and other technology, business and policy matters that together determine the status, value and control of user-related information.

This working group intends to provide a resource and a catalyst to policy innovation for trusted intermediaries and others with a role in providing user-centric services that depend on access to and use of user-related data. Explicitly this working group looks at using the law technically as an anvil for user-centric policy.

Principles

 * 1) Emulate the Purpose And Principles of Identity Commons
 * 2) Have deep discussions of law, and policy, for technical development addressing consent, ownership, control and value of identity
 * 3) Promote discussion of universal accessibility for identity access and notice for those that are unable, digitally challenge and have their consent implied for them
 * 4) Organise collaborative technical discussion and innovation in the use of technically usable user-centric legal policy.
 * 5) Advocates best practice by advertising the user-centric entities in the identity layer with a *volunteered* level of compliance through 'applied' best practice as a form of 'positive privacy'.

Practices
The practice is to post good and bad news events which impact 'user-centric' policy. Posting/discussing current events to analyse the global 'user-centric' secure and policy compliant marketplace. In addition to discussing theses post to look at ways in which the policy and compliance environment can be organised and usable (interoperable) with other initiatives in the community.

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 technically usable 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 discussion, access to a working group project website is available email mark@smartspecies.com for access. Generally, volunteer effort 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 in this working group, 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 and 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 an 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 discuss the charter and this working group potential to add to the community. regular posting of current events and any discussion will follows.

The last post from last year Inferred Vs. Actual - The evolution of policy which discusses the gestation of this working group and focus of best practices. Please review and discuss this draft charter in its potential to give back and provide value to this community.

Current Deliverables and Milestones
To start off the Lunar New Year (Feb 07, 2008), I invite people to post to the good and bad policy changing highlights from last year that are felt to have been important events. Events effecting the fate of our information. Send email to: identitytrust@identitycommons.net

In addition, the innovation of this working group so far and what has inspired and renewed activity has been the discussion of best practices in terms of Positive Privacy.

Current Membership
TBD

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

Current Links
Last post before Charter Re-Write. Inferred Vs. Actual - The evolution of policy