Identity Management at the Anaheim Open Group Conference

Plenary Keynote Presentation

• The Emerging Infrastructure for Identity and Access Management - Jamie Lewis, CEO and Research Chair, The Burton Group.

  Mr. Lewis will examine the integrated infrastructure emerging for managing identities and entitlements, both within enterprises and across corporate boundaries. Mr. Lewis will discuss the role that directory services and access management systems and standards will play in the infrastructure, as well as identity federation and the intersection of enterprises identity management with public identity systems such as Microsoft's Passport and solutions proposed by the Liberty Alliance.

The Identity Management Problem

This session will focus on how IT users manage identities, with presentations on different aspects of the problem. The session chair will be Winston Bumpus, Director of Open Technologies and Standards at Novell, and chair of the Directory Interoperability Forum.

• Identity Management in Healthcare - speaker to be announced
• The Rights of the Internet Person - Peter Bachman, CEO, Cequs Inc.

The Identity Management Problem - Continued

• Managing Suppliers' Identities - Dean Sepstrup, Enterprise Messaging - Outlook Product Manager, the Boeing Corporation
• Identity Management in a Mobile Environment - Ed Harrington, VP Business Development & Strategy, Nexor Plc, and Chair of the Mobile and Directory Working Group of The Open Group.
• Role-Based Authorization and Access Control - Vance Heron, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

At the end of this session, the presenters will form a panel to answer questions from the audience.

Possible Solutions

This session will include presentations on different proposed solutions to the problems of identity management. The session chair will be Steven Jenkins, Manager, Architecture and System Engineering, Institutional Computing and Information Services, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

• The Secure Messaging Challenge Approach - Speaker from the Secure Messaging Challenge, to be announced
• Passport - One Name, One Password - Jackson Shaw, Product Manager, Windows 2000 Server Marketing, Microsoft
• Liberty Alliance Project - single sign-on for consumers as well as business users in an open, federated way - speaker from the Liberty Alliance, name to be announced.

The Way Forward

This session will look at the solutions in the context of the whole problem, and at how the IT industry and its user community can move forward.

The session will start with a presentation describing the Identity Management Business Scenario that is being developed by the Directory Interoperability Forum of The Opep Group, given by Chris Harding, Executive Director of the DIF. It will address:

• The Business Scenario as currently developed, and
• New issues arising from the day's presentations

The second half of the session will be a Panel Discussion moderated by Steven Jenkins in which a panel of users and vendors give their views on the way forward, and discuss points raised by the audience.