Identity Trust Charter

Name
Identity Trust

A proposed working group which is focused on the research and development of data policy transparency. This working group is directly addressing the need for a clear, easy to understand and usable transparency over organisational policy. The research and developments in this area will be a starting point in addressing many issues surrounding identity that are not clear to a lack of transparency over the management of personally identifiable information. Eg. The current poor quality of consent online, realised in a trans-global infrastructure of opt-ins, opt-outs, and terms of service agreements. The inability for an individual to easily see the difference between an empowering company and dis-empowering company. It is hoped that this research and development will lead to better control and use of personal identity value by the individual.

Purpose
The purpose of Positive Privacy is a more positive discussion of privacy through the systemic strategy of reporting and advertising the good practices of Trusted Intermediaries (A.K.A info-me-diaries). This policy reporting activity is aimed at illuminating legislation and market regulation to achieve global market compliance in data protection. Positive Privacy is a way of organizing the emerging compliance marketplace in to a format which promotes information self-determination.

Principles

 * 1) Have deep discussions of law, and policy for technical development which address consent, ownership, control and value of identity
 * 2) Promote discussion of universal accessibility for identity access and notice, including those that are unable; digitally challenge and have their consent implied for them
 * 3) Organise collaborative technical discussion regarding technical development of a directory  to display measured access and ownership
 * 4) 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 and discuss positive practices which promote good 'user-enabled' policy. In addition to discussing these practices, we will also look at current initiatives which are having positive impacts for information self determination.

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
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

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 first represented in a meeting in Geneva Feb 2006

Suggested Working Group Reading: Trust, Complexity and Control: Confidence in a Convergent World by Piotr Cofta

History

 * 2008 Q1 Report Identity Trust