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Trusted OpenIDOpenID is my online identity that I extend. It was once only a protocol. Protocols are merging. Now we see a mix of OAuth, OpenID, and SAML emerging as the pathways to connect and extend my online identity. Trusted OpenID is my online identity that has been verified by a second credible party, typically an institution, a professional society or a location. It operates within the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Framework. Trusted OpenID resides within a closed Trust Framework where payloads of assertions are exchanged. The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) provides the environment to meet government requirements and to protect individual privacy. These assertions begin with the conditions of the identity server and its environment made transparent through Uniform Resource Identifiers. This is a closed network that exposes to the open web assertions authorized by account holders. It also provides an environment for closed communities and peer circles. |
White Houses Issues Online Trusted Identities Plan
Information Week
Friday, April 15, 2011
OpenID goes Mobile
OpenID Society
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
NIH Uses OpenID to extend access
Federal Computer Week
Monday, May 10, 2010
OIX Forms to Build Trust for Online Identity
Open Identity Exchange
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Government Adopts OpenID
Reuters and Business Wire
Wednesday, September 9, 2009; 8:51am EDT
Current Projects
Publish Trust Framework
The Publish Trust Project examines the feasibility of adding trust values to online identities for authors of scholarly publications, thus enabling them to reliably aggregate previous and current works and connect with other experts in their field. Our first experiment uses VIVO as a semantic identity platform with the OIX Trust Framework to produce two-factor assertions of authorship from scholarly publishers of peer-reviewed works and authors.
OpenID Community Project
This project seeks to enhance current social structure; municipalities, associations, educational institutions and any group that can provide trusted network credentials in order to develop an extensible identity stack within the OpenID framework. In addition, the project will map personal identity elements in such a way as to maximize the value of trusted digital interactions while protecting individual privacy.
WeOpenID Server Project
The purpose of this project is to provide an Open Source Server platform for trusted communities using the most up-to-date standards required by the U.S. Government for trusted identity. WeOpenID Server will provide National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Level 2 of Assurance (LOA2) with anonymous trusted claim digital extension capacity and appropriate levels of protection (LOP). Sponsor participants are now being invited.
