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Kaliya Hamlin @identitywoman

Markus Sabadello http://danubechannel.com

Joseph Boyle @Josephboyle

Joe Johnston @simple10

The Personal Data Store (PDS) Project

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What is a Personal Data Store?*

A cloud service for storing personal life bits Could be anything you create or do online Could be your own server or a PDS service provider

Under the complete control of an individual Like a personal bank account Like banking, no third party (including PDS provider)

has access to any of this data without permission

Provides portability of personal data across all PDS-enabled service providers and consumers This standard PDS interchange capability is called PDX

(personal data exchange)

* Also called “personal data service”, “personal data locker”, and “personal data vault”

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Core thesis

Personal data stores and PDX providea strong, user-centric foundation

for both person-to-person relationships

(federated social web)&

person-to-business relationships (vendor relationship management)

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PDS as foundation for P2P social web

Allows every individual to create their own interconnected social graph based on open protocols

Each person can decide how open or how closed to be about every relationship

Provides a standard global API for social applications

“TCP/IP for relationships”

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Groups: beyond networked individualism

Groups are not “just the same” as individual nodes

Complex, first-class data sharing entities

PDX can enable groups to be defined and shared interoperably across all PDX providers and consumers

Group relationships use the same portable authorization and access control as individual relationships: XDI link contracts

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Phil Windley* on PDX

“One thing we discovered with KRL (Kynetx Rule Language) early on was that interesting rulesets were often going to tie to multiple sets of permissioned data and that having a user go through multiple ‘allow-deny’ ceremonies when they start up was a bad user experience. PDX solves that problem.”   

* Founder and CTO of Kynetx (kynetx.com) and archictect of Kynetx Rules Language (KRL)

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PDS as foundation for VRM

Enable “volunteered personal information” A direct connection between individuals and the

vendors they do business with or the organizations they belong to

The “inverse of CRM” – the customer manages the vendor as much as the vendor manages the customer

Already being implemented by Mydex in the UK Participating vendors include the UK national

government, several local authorities, a data aggregator, and the UK’s largest online parenting organization.

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Tech Interop:PDX XDITech Interop:PDX XDI

Policy Interop:PDX Trust FrameworkPolicy Interop:PDX Trust Framework

“Semantic JSON”Portable format for all

PDX dataPortable

authorization/access control format (XDI link contracts)

Includes shared PDX XDI dictionary services

Extensibility & mapping to other protocols/formats

Open Identity Exchange (OIX) service

Enables risk-based certification of PDX providers/consumers

Can support all levels of assurance/protection

Self-certificationSocial certificationThird-party certification

The two halves of PDX

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XDI DATA IN PDS

=!1111.aaaa.bbbb.cccc <-- =alice --> $is =(http://alice.exampleopenid.com/) =(mailto:alice@mydata.org) $is$a +person +street "100 Main St" +city "Seattle" +zip "98101" +country "USA"

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XDI MESSAGE TO PDS

=!2222.xxxx.yyyy.zzzz <-- =bob --> $get / =!1111.aaaa.bbbb.cccc <-- =alice --> +street +city

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XDI LINK CONTRACTS (1)

=!1111.aaaa.bbbb.cccc$has$1 <-- =alice --> $is$a $has $has$a $a $get / =!1111.aaaa.bbbb.cccc <-- =alice -->

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XDI LINK CONTRACTS (2)

=!1111.aaaa.bbbb.cccc$has$1$a <-- =alice --> $is$a $a $is$has =!2222.xxxx.yyyy.zzzz <-- =bob -->

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Code

What exists already: Core native XDI PDS component Code for resolving XRI addressing of PDX documents OpenID endpoint Very basic web interface for managing the PDS and

PDX social address book (see http://pds.fullxri.com) Next steps:

Webfinger support PDX web address book sync PDX mobile address book sync Getting existing code packaged and available

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Talk to us

Hang with Markus, Joseph, or Joe at OSCON

http://personaldatastore.info/personaldatastore@gmail.com

OR ping any of us on Twitter@identitywoman

@josephboyle@versionvega

@drummondreed