OSIS

OSIS

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OSIS: The Open-Source Identity System

Background
OSIS brings together many identity-related open-source projects, and synchronizes and harmonizes the construction of an interoperable identity layer for the internet from open-source parts. Its first deliverable is interoperability with Microsoft CardSpace, although OSIS also encompasses alternate technologies such as OpenID and SAML.

OSIS was chartered as an Identity Commons working group on September 15, 2006, electing:
 * Dale Olds, Bandit Project (Novell), as its representative to Identity Commons
 * Johannes Ernst, NetMesh, as alternate.

The OSIS working group was created by agreement of the involved parties on Monday, Jun 19, 2006. It arose out of discussions since about February 2006 between Microsoft, NetMesh and Verisign. OSIS is governed by a OSIS Steering Committee with broad participation from software vendors and open-source projects. OSIS has also stood for Open Source Identity Selector and Open Source Interoperability System

Goals
Per OSIS Agreement, the OSIS project brings together heads of open-source projects related to digital identity, in order
 * 1) to enable those projects to work independently, but aligned, so overlap of work is avoided, and the parts developed by different projects can fit
 * 2) to deliver an open-source identity selector as a joint effort of multiple projects, which is intended to be at least as functional, and fully compatible, with Microsoft's CardSpace (formerly known as InfoCard) identity selector that will be shipped with Windows Vista.

Members

 * OSIS Working Groups
 * Interop Working Group
 * F2F Meetings
 * Steering Committee

Interoperability Resources

 * Interop Wiki -- Links to current plans and previous interops. Lists of active interop components. Test Details, Results,  Active updates for Interop Working Group
 * Google Group -- Discussions, Meeting Minutes, Logistics Interoperability Working Group
 * Landing Page -- At Google Groups for non-Wiki resources

RSA 2008 San Francisco USA: April 8-9 2008
This is the current interop being conducted:
 * User-Centric Identity Interop through RSA in April 2008

Planning is now underway. Discussion group is at:
 * [User-Centric Identity Interop Google Group]

Interop Plan RSA Conference 2008
 * What: 	RSA 2008 User-Centric Identity Interop Event
 * When:	April 8-9, 2008
 * Where: 	Room 124 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco CA USA
 * Link:	http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/US/Home.aspx
 * Goals:
 * Complete interoperability testing before conference begins
 * Invite public to a demo room showing interoperability
 * Host two days of working sessions between Interop participants
 * Show continuous video loop to describe what the interop is doing, what you will see
 * Logistical Contact: Charles Andres (CAndres@parityinc.net)

IIW 2007b Mountain View USA: Dec 2007
OSIS members participated in a discussion of the detailed interop test plans, gathering at the IIW unconference to work together.

Catalyst Barcelona (Spain): October, 2007
OSIS members will participate in an Interop in Barcelona, in conjunction with the Burton Group Catalyst conference there: participation is OPEN, if you are interested, please join the OSIS-general mailing list and ask for more information.


 * An overview and planning for the OSIS Interop Event 2, Barcelona (OSIS wiki pages)
 * Mailing list for Interop Event 2
 * Burton Group call for participation

Catalyst San Francisco USA: June 27, 2007
OSIS members participated in a user-centric Identity Interop sponsored by the Burton Group carried out during the Catalyst Conference, on the evening of June 27, 2007. The event was successful, with a well-attended demonstration at the event. Further Information:
 * Press Release
 * Burton Group Summary

Interop Participant Collaboration Page (these pages are only for participants, you must have a valid OpenID approved by Johnannes Ernst to get to this link).

IIW 2007a Mountain View USA: May 2007
OSIS members participated in a 'warm-up' to the Burton group Catalyst conference, gathering at the IIW unconference to work together.

Recent News

 * Presentation from IIW 2007a
 * Notes from IIW 2006b
 * OSIS and the Open Specification Promise
 * Microsoft: Open Specification Promise
 * ZDNet: OSIS links Internet identity systems (coverage of the announcement at the Harvard/Berkman Identity Mashup Conference)
 * Kim Cameron: Open Source Identity Selector Announced
 * OSIS announcement at the Harvard/Berkman Identity Mashup Conference
 * News.com: Is Open Source Getting to Microsoft?

Resources

 * Interoperability Space --work in progress
 * Microsoft Reference Materials
 * Technical Insights
 * Chuck Mortimore's implementation of InfoCard in the browser (blog post)
 * InfoCard Overview (implementation) by Kim Cameron at IIW
 * High-level Architecture
 * OSIS Selector Capability Advertisment

The following pages are earlier versions of similar pages on the newly expanded Interoperability Section -- link this!
 * Interoperability Issues
 * Use Cases
 * Interop Use Cases
 * Interoperability demonstrations
 * [Identity Agent Features] Note that "Identity Agent" here refers to what is now termed "Identity Selector" or "I-card Selector".

Mailing Lists
mailto: user-centric-identity-interop@googlegroups.com
 * General OSIS discussion (Mailman)
 * OSIS Steering Committee discussion (Mailman)
 * User-centric interop (Google Groups)

Previous interop discussion
 * Catalyst Barcelona interop preparation / discussion (Google Groups)