Enterprise Positioning

To engage the enterprises in the adoption and proliferation of user-centric identity by shaping clear articulate value propositions for communication in the enterprise space. See the Enterprise Positioning Charter for more details.

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Outline of Current Thinking

THE ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE

Enterprises need a holistic IDM strategy, process and tool, that effectively interfaces identity across a diverse set of communities and domains:

• Allow the user be reliably identified
  • User can use an identity they already have created anywhere
  • Use this to provide a personalized service to a broader audience

• High barrier of entry for certain low sensitivity applications

• Time and cost for integrating M&A

What is the industry IDM Evolution

IDM 1.0:

Reducing cost of managing fragmented identities while retaining high level of trust:

• Evolving from identity application silos to a reduced SSO for the enterprise
• Cost Reduction
• Federation for trusted enterprises

IDM 2.0:

• User Centric approach to Identity Management: User’s creating and maintaining identity and claims (i.e., the “IP of identity”)
• User Control: Choosing which identity credentials to present in response to an authenticating or attribute request
• User Consent: User can always control or deny whether info about them is released
• IDM 2.0 provides functionality capabilities not in IDM 1.0 – not a superset of federation

What are the typical goals of Enterprise IDM 2.0?

• Extending Reach
• Lower Cost
• Lower Barriers of Entry

• Strong driver to extend reach to communities to generate additional revenue and reduce costs & by selling products & services and eliminating the barrier for registration and identity.

1. A horizontal identity management solution that allows identity to be effectively interfaced & portable across domains and communities
2. Allow users to create and maintain identity: Make it easy for customer to interact with web 2.0 communities and beyond
3. Lightweight identity solution that reduces barriers of entry to other communities, but also within HP

• • Provide a low barrier of entry for certain low sensitivity applications
  • Provide a quicker and secure identity management solution for M&A

Enterprise Customer IdM 2.0

The challenge: extending reach beyond the captive domain into new and diverse communities

Known Less-known Unknown <----------------------------------------------------->

Captive Cultivated External Users Communities

<-----------------------------------------------------> Customers Communities External Partners Blogs Communities

What are the IDM themes around extending global reach?

• Overall strategy is to market products and services to communities beyond the current captive domain
• Allow the user be reliably identified
  • User can use an identity they already have created anywhere
  • Use this to provide a personalized service to a broader audience
• Make it easy for customer to interact with enterprise communities and beyond
• Provide a low barrier of entry for certain low sensitivity applications
• Provide a quicker and secure identity management solution for M&A

Lightweight Idm solution

• Provide a lightweight identity architecture approach that is simpler, cheaper and faster for integration.
  • Reduces barriers of entry for M&A
  • Added on – but does not replace core HP IDM 1.0 capabilities
  • May mask some levels of back end fragmentation
• Trust for highly sensitive content is an issues
• The model of an enterprise being its own RP and masking OpenID needs to be considered

Cultivated and External Communities

• External to your captive community - these communities represent to a significant opportunity to increase your global reach
• Communities that are for shared interest represents community thought leadership that goes beyond an individual
• Typically a minimal set of information exits that user’s claim
• Bridging identity into these domains removes key barriers of entry:
  • Registration abandonment
  • ID fatigue among users
• Expensive to maintain a shared IdM (e.g. federation) infrastructure for these types of users

Calls

03/05 at 2:00.  The dial-in number is
866-401-6110 - Input ID 8576924

Notes for Call on March 3

Attendees:, Pete & Ed from HP, Gary from Novell, Kaliya

Beginning: Pete attended the Stewards call earlier in the Day

Pete volunteered to help to IIW Design Team 'review.' Pete is going to write up a paragraph or two for the IIW Sector Invitations.

Gary came on board and the conversation diverged to the HP 'identity announcement' today.

Working Group is in the under review stage for IC.

E-mail soliciting membership to the group is going out shortly.

Workstreams and value propositions.

Broad vs Deep. is a choice

Pete should work on a few specific use cases/scenarios. Gary is working on a wiki page for their development. Each person work on specific ones and then circle for review of the group.

Having a diversity of perspectives in approaching these issues will be really helpful. The Higgins/Bandit perspective - OpenID perspective and how it all fits with proprietary enterprise solutions.

Notes for Call on Feb 20.

We agreed to have a standard format for the meeting and the following outline was proposed:

A) Work Group Management - Charter status, IdComommons alignment, membership solicitation

B) Work Streams - Development of use cases, value propositions and other deliverables

C) Communications - Overall communications plans/ strategy and deliverables

Meeting Next Steps:

1) Gary to send a communication to the ID Commons to solicit additional members

2) All are going to ping their personal networks to solicit additional members

3) Gary to document work streams on the wiki

Next meeting scheduled for 03/05

Actions from our 01/23 meeting

1) Kaliya reviewed process for charter approval and working group structure - complete

2) Discuss need for article on workgroup for IDCommons news letter - Pete submitted draft to Kaliya and Gary

3) Review drivers / framing document from previous discussion - complete

4) Create a summary spreadsheet of use cases / drivers to be addressed and team provide input - Gary

5) Schedule next working session. - complete

6) Did I miss anything?

NOtes for Call on Jan 23.

Themes: Extending the Enterprise

• 'captive users' - self registred, verified
• 'cultivated community' trying to get customers to interact (need consistant strategies)
• 'external' larger internet world as a whole - opportunities - no way to know about or interact directly.

Thrust around OpenID - trying to tap into cultivated and external communities. Move up through levels of membership. They represent huge marketing capability.

Problem with global identity management with customers - they are centralized. VPN managed globally - administrative domains of identity are local in geography - in part data privacy. Managing across this spectrum of domains. Technologies being developed in User-centric community that can be used to address these business problems.

Idea: Messaging similar to the way design patterns are used. in the sense that we are talking about for people. We can describe things in this way. Yeah- I got that problem. matches context so what do I do. Look at Slides - consistent across all domains.

Cost effective - Light weight identity management.

Actions from our 01/09 meeting

1) Gary, Pete and Kaliya to update charter document - Complete

2) Team review document post updates and provide feedback - Complete

3) Gary to schedule charter review / approval - Complete charter submitted

4) Meet again next week to start defining content / deliverables.