Digital Identity
Drummond Reed, OneName Corporation
Jerry Kindall, Epok, Inc.
Digital Identity and Identity Theft
Digital Identity and Web Services
Digital Identity and the Consumer
Identity Documents and Addressing
Data Sharing Permissions and Contracts
Other Digital Identity Services
Digital Identity and Enterprise Application Integration
The Future of Digital Identity
WHAT IS DIGITAL IDENTITY?
As an emerging technology, the meaning of digital identity depends to a large extent on who is talking about it. In general, the term refers to the class of technologies, standards, services, and applications that enable a real-world identity to be represented digitally on a network, manage the data related to the identity (its attributes), and control access to various network resources. Technically, any addressable resource on a network has identity; in many circles, though, the term is most meaningful when describing how an individual user's personal identity and personally identifiable data are modeled, represented, controlled, and shared on the network.
Digital identity touches on issues of trust, privacy, security, and interoperability that are becoming vital to the evolving Internet. As e-commerce and e-business become everyday realities, consumers want to control information about themselves, while at ...
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