Identity Gang

About
The Identity Gang formed in 2004, evolving from a mailing list, a podcast, and meetings at conferences to the leading industry event in user-centric identity - The Internet Identity Workshop. The 10th one is coming up in May 2010. Many community projects are working groups of Identity Commons - a very diverse and inclusive industry coordinating body. The stewards of Identity Commons meet monthly for a teleconference that is open to anyone - it is like a mini-Internet Identity Workshop updating community activity.

You can join the "gang" too on the community mailing list. To join send an email to [mailto:community-subscribe@lists.idcommons.net Subscribe].

We have an active mailing list of over 500 people.

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 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.

Information Resources

 * Identity Landscape - Groups Communities and Projects, Conferences, Protocols and Technologies
 * Lexicon - a shared vocabulary to discuss 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.
 * Reference - Two main sections: Concepts and Background Papers, Privacy Law and Society
 * Systemic Elements is a list of the key elements in identity systems.