Identity Trust Charter

Name
Identity Trust

Purpose
Identity Trust is a working group that has been gestating for 3 years now. Over this time trust based research has been conducted in consent, control and confidence in Identity and Access Management. This research is being applied here in the area of Identity and Trust.

The purpose of this application is to represent a sovereign policy and perspective of identity. With this focus propose activities or input that can be developed from this working group. Some guiding research references are listed below.

'Trust and control are interchangeable and in the absence of trust there is control.' Although, 'Trust in fact is a deficiency of control that expresses itself as a desire to progress despite the inability to control.' '.. while control is reducible to trust, trust cannot be reducible to control'. (Cofta 2007:p.28)

Recent research indicates that there is two different types of trust that need to be operational in society. There is interpersonal trust and there is institutional trust.

Morrone Tontoranelli, et al., produced an OECD Statistics Working Paper in 2009, to explore the value of trust in society, illustrating that interpersonal trust and institutional trust are different concepts that need to be made operational in different ways. The need for distinguishing them lies in the fact that they enter people’s live in different ways, and that they have different effects on various dimensions of progress. "Trust is one of the dimensions of the framework to measure the progress of societies proposed by the OECD Global Project. In this framework, trust is considered as a key input into human well being because it indicates the willingness of individuals to co-operate with others. As underlined in this paper trust has emerged as one of the best available measures of social capital and the evidence in this paper shows that trust displays close associations with a number of other dimensions of social progress." (Morrone, Tortoraneli, et al, 2009:p.31)

- Stay Tuned -

We are currently working towards contributing the Master Controller Access Framework (MCAF) into this working group. The MCAF is focused on greater (more granular) access control to information for sharing, gaining access to information once it is shared, and most of all, transparency over the information sharing environment. Fundamentally an opt-in, mandatory preference approach, the MCAF is more than a default policy of control for the individual. The MCAF looks to address information sharing after disclosure and provide tools for providing a platform so that an individual can have the choice of trust when online.

Various ideas for work group focus include the development of control and trust metrics that are cross jurisdictional.

One proposal for this working group is to develop a single metric to measure if an individual has interpersonal or institutional control over personal information. Similarily there is a proposal to develop a metric for the quality and strength of transaprency in the use of identity management.

The purpose is to help support efforts that are creating an information sharing environment which enables people to manage identity, not environments that enable identity to manage people.

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 although the working group is not actively using a mailing list at this time. [if you are interested, please send an email to identitytrust@gmail.com]

If you are interested in getting more involved and participating in this proposed working group, please email us and let us know.

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 starting this working group anew.

Current Deliverables and Milestones
To discuss community projects which can provide an example of positve privacy.

Current Membership

 * Mark Lizar
 * 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:

This WG effort is dedicated to the memory of Nick Givotovsky