Identity Trust Charter

Name
Currently discussing a proposed name change from Identity Trust to the working group. A proposal for the name of Identity Trust working group to be changed is currently in discussion. Currently multiple names are being proposed.


 * 1) Identity & Trust
 * 2) Positive Privacy
 * 3) Positive Policy

Any other suggestions would be welcome please feel invited to add to the above list.

Purpose
The purpose of this working group is to provide an ongoing collaborative inventory and analysis of current events in the identity sphere and their public policy impact on user-centric digital identity. A primary guide of enquiry will be that of the technology and policy developments that directly effect 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 user-centric policy then reconciling this policy to the law and fortifying its bonds through established universal legal principles.

Principles

 * 1) Emulate the Purpose And Principles of Identity Commons
 * 2) Have deep discussions of law, and policy for technical development which address 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 regarding technical innovation and user-centric legal policy.
 * 5) Advocate best practice by advertising the user-centric entities in the identity layer with a *volunteered* level of compliance through 'applied' best practice in a positive view of privacy.

Practices
The practice is to post good and/or bad news and events (currrent or historical) which impact 'user-centric' policy. Posting/discussing current events to analyse the global 'user-centric' secure and policy compliant marketplace. In addition to discussing these posts, we will also 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 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 discuss the working group charter and this working group potential to add to the community. Regular posting of current events and any discussion will follow.

The last post from last year Inferred Vs. Actual - The evolution of policy 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
The First Discussion: To start off the Lunar New Year (Feb 07, 2008), is to 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 a renewed activity has been the discussion of best practices which has evolved to define Positive Privacy.

Current Membership

 * Mark Lizar
 * Nick Givotovsky
 * Louis Monvoisin

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

Current Links
Positive Privacy a discussion of best practices

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

Identity & Trust joined the Internet Governance Forum: Dynamic Coalition on Privacy and was represented in a meeting in Geneva Feb 2006

Suggested reading: Trust, Complexity and Control: Confidence in a Convergent World by Piotr Cofta