skip to main content
10.1145/1135777.1135887acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesthewebconfConference Proceedingsconference-collections
Article

Identity management on converged networks: a reality check

Published: 23 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Since the early days of the Web, identity management has been a big issue. As the famous cartoon from the New Yorker reminds us, "on the internet, nobody knows you are a dog". This was true back in July 1993. This is true today. For the last few years, numerous initiatives have emerged to tackle this issue: Microsoft Passport, Liberty Alliance, 3GPP GUP, Shibboleth, to name a few. Major investments are being made in this area and this is foreseen as a multi-billion dollar market. Yet, as of this writing, there is still no widespread identity management infrastructure in place ready to be used by the general public on converged networks.The goal of this panel is to do a reality check and try to answer the following five questions:
What is identity management?
Who needs identity management and why?
What will the identity management ecosystem look like?
What's agreed upon?
What's next?

Cited By

View all
  • (2007)Attribute delegation in ubiquitous environmentsProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile multimedia communications10.5555/1385289.1385341(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2007

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
May 2006
1102 pages
ISBN:1595933239
DOI:10.1145/1135777
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 23 May 2006

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Qualifiers

  • Article

Conference

WWW06
Sponsor:

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,899 of 8,196 submissions, 23%

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)4
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1
Reflects downloads up to 16 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2007)Attribute delegation in ubiquitous environmentsProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile multimedia communications10.5555/1385289.1385341(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Aug-2007

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Figures

Tables

Media

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media