ID-Legal Charter

Name
Identity and Legal Communities Cross Pollination Group

Purpose
The Purpose of the ID-Legal Collaboration Group is to increase opportunities for the exchange of ideas and the creation of hybrid identity concepts (cross pollination) between the legal community and technical community involved in innovating systems that affect digital identity systems because:
 * “Identity” is a multifaceted concept, each part of which relates to or arises from different aspects of interactions between individuals and others, and which are all mediated by technology.
 * Advances in technology continue to fundamentally alter each of the elements of the interaction feedback loops from which the various components of identity arise.
 * The existing legal authorities relating to identity issues rely on a language, conceptual structure and policy goals that do not fully address the latest advances in such mediating technology, and this situation is expected to continue due to the legal focus on prior precedent, rather than future scenarios.
 * Because the identity legal structure is laws not in sync with the identity technology structure, misunderstandings arise, the crafting of common definitions and approaches to working with identity issues is stalled, the evolution of advances in the development of identity tools is delayed, and the ability to formulate policies that simultaneously address legal and technological issues is undermined. - creating friction (e-signature)
 * The pace of technological advance is expected to continue to accelerate, and the corresponding changes to identity issues are expected to continue to challenge the ability of law to address the new identity questions in a timely fashion.Tech comes out disruptive and the law doesn't know how to deal - causing evolution
 * Where the identity-related law is not able to adequately address issues arising from the adoption of new technology, it creates New Laws coming out - creating uncertainty back into technology markets, stalling the introduction of new products and services and undermining the ability of individuals and institutions to evaluate identity related options associated with the adoption of new technology.

Principles
Creating a safe space for mutual learning between the legal community and technologists working on the identity and relationship layer of the web.

Create a neutral place for the sharing of ideas around identity relationship layer of the web.

Practices
We will use an IC hosted Mailing list and the IC wiki.

If we hold an event we will use the IC bank account. We will contribute 15% of revenue back to IC.

We will collaborate with other working groups to synchronize our efforts. Two we see particular synergy are IdFutures and IdMedia Review.

We will have a forward looking stnace and work on spotlighting existing and potential tensions that exist in this space creating the opportunity and space for their resolution.

Requirements of Participation and How to Join
Join the Mailing list

Licenses and/or Restrictions on Usage of Work Product
Creative Commons with Attribution for our work together.

It is also important that our work when distributed is contextualized.

Current Deliverables and Milestones
We are working on a description of our conference and a plan to aggregate prior content.

Current Meeting Schedule
We will have a Bay Area meeting for those interested early in the new year.

Current Membership

 * Peter Nixey, Clickpass,
 * Eli Edwards, SCU School of Law,
 * Lucy Lynch, Internet Society,
 * Kermit Smelson,
 * Gabe Wachob,
 * Hiroki Itoh, NTT,
 * Phil Wolff, dataportability.org,
 * Nika Jones, OUNO,
 * Bob Snodgrass, n2c,
 * Nick Givotovsky, ,
 * Jeff Hodges, Neustar,
 * Judi,
 * Dave Kearns,
 * Mike Macintosh, Xpollen,
 * Dazza Greenwood, Civics.com,
 * Bob Blakley, Burton Group,
 * Fen Labalme, CivicActions

Current Stewards Council Representative and Alternate

 * Representative - Jeff Hodges
 * Alternate - Judi

Current Links
ID-Legal

Related Groups

 * Id Media Review
 * IdFutures

History

 * 2008 Q2 Report ID-Legal