The document formerly known as the "National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions" is now the "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace". The White House statement from Howard Schmidt: "Today, I am pleased to announce the latest step in moving our Nation forward in securing our cyberspace with the release of the draft National Strategy for trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). This first draft of NSTIC was developed in collaboration with key government agencies, business leaders and privacy advocates. What has emerged is a blueprint to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections through the use of trusted digital identities. "
The NSS is now accepting open public comments on the IdeaScale website (a "cloud comment service" contracted by the government): http://www.nstic.ideascale.com/ By the way IdeaScale is following the ICAM guidelines accepting only certified OpenID identity providers. Judy Spencer from the GSA shares the OIX view that government priorities should include the widespread adoption of OpenID at government sites, the continued development of trust frameworks and new government pilots at higher levels of assurance. These efforts are likely to be described in a separate Implementation Plan which will be available at the end of July in draft and then officially when President Obama signs the strategy document this fall. The NSTIC emphasizes the need for consistent user experience, contextualized identity, choice of credentials and identity providers, and a robust "Identity Ecosystem." The OIX has had constant contact with the National Security Staff's team as it represents many of the companies who consider "Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" a core competency. We are looking forward to a meeting of OIX representatives with Howard Schmidt in the near future to continue to refine (Page 16) the governance layer of trust frameworks in the identity ecosystem. Again the report is in a draft stage and "Public ideas and recommendations to further refine this Strategy are encouraged." Kim Cameron of Microsoft called the current draft "historic because of the grasp of identity issues it achieves..At the core of the document is a recognition that we need a solution supporting privacy-enhancing technologies and built by harnessing a user-centric Identity Ecosystem offering citizens and private enterprise plenty of choice. The authors understand society needs a spectrum of approaches suitable for different use cases but fitting within a common interoperable ecosystem. A few years ago I would not have believed this kind of progress would be possible." We are off to such a good start. The support of the OIX by grants from the OpenID Foundation and Information Card Foundation enabled community, companies and organizations in the identity to working closely with policy thinkers and those leading this initiative in government. The OIX focus on more adoption-of open identity protocols, more pilots -at higher levels of assurance and more certification of IdP's and RP's are strengthening various aspects of the White House strategy. As Kim points out in his post; " The real challenge will be to actually live up to the guiding principles as we move from high level statements to a widely deployed system - making it truly secure, resilient and privacy enhancing." Please contact me with any questions or comments. Don Thibeau Executive Director The OpenID Foundation http://openid.net -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: board Digest, Vol 42, Issue 45 Send board mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of board digest..." Today's Topics: 1. O'Reilly on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (Brian Kissel) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:53:15 -0700 From: Brian Kissel <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [OpenID board] O'Reilly on National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/three-privacy-initiatives-from.html Cheers, Brian *___________* * * *Brian Kissel <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254>* [email protected] CEO - JanRain, Inc. 519 SW 3rd Ave. Suite 600 Portland, OR 97204 Mobile: 503.342.2668 | Fax: 503.296.5502 Twitter: @janrain <http://twitter.com/janrain> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-board/attachments/20100628/b6c33b8 8/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board End of board Digest, Vol 42, Issue 45 ************************************* _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-board
