Higgins

1: a species of Tasmanian long-tailed mouse

2: the name of an Eclipse open source collaboration

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Towards 3-D Internet

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Immersive Worlds + 2-D Web Evolve to a 3-D Net

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Imagine the Internet with Highly Immersive, Visual Components

3-D online spaces where your “avatar”

can walk around in a real life setting

Build virtual buildings and machines, socialize and exchange ideas with others – even do business

…satisfying two key aspects of being human: our innately social and visual natures …

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Early Virtual Worlds Business Applications

Commerce

Collaboration and Events

Education and Training

Emerging Business Applications

Enable dynamic, automatic capture of people information from disparate information repositories

Facilitate integration with diverse identity management systems

Ease management of identity, profile, reputation and relationship data across repositories

An Eclipse open source project supported by IBM, Novell and Parity:

Higgins Trust Framework will boost productivity by integrating identity, profile and relationship data across complex enterprises

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Eclipsehttp://www.eclipse.org/higgins/

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• Healthcare System• Corporate Directories

• eCommerce (e.g. Amazon, eBay)• Social Networking (e.g. LinkedIn) • Book club

• Family

• Professional networks• Dating networks

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Multiple digital identities…

• Second Life• Croquet• WOW

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• Healthcare System• Corporate Directories

• eCommerce (e.g. Amazon, eBay)• Social Networking (e.g. LinkedIn)

• Book club• Family

• Professional networks• Dating networks

You

…each in its own context (silo)

• Second Life• Croquet• WOW

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And there are multiple “me”s!

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A better way…

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Introducing i-cardsI create (personal)

I define a few personas Business “me”, web surfing “me”, dating “me”

Others create (managed) Credit cards Membership, reputation in community 3D avatar (virtual identity) Governments (drivers license)

I co-create with others (relationship) My preferences, interests within community Might include shopping history and wishlists

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You use them to

Sign-in to sites Exchange with friends; stay in sync Increase convenience and privacy

(e.g. far fewer passwords) Project my values, interests,

preferences to sites Get introductions and offers that I find

relevant and compellingHere’s how it works…

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First, I need an identity agentI get one from any site that uses i-cards…

1. I download the Higgins browser add-on

2. Restart my browser (IE and FireFox)

…That’s it.

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Now I can sign in to sitesWithout passwords at each site

i-cards (digital “me”s) are displayed in my browser or mobile device

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I can exchange them with friends

Every user gets an i-name (e.g. “=agent*drummond”)

I can send my I-name in email, IM or SMS

My friend responds with their i-name

We each choose which persona(s) each other can see

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I can import & present managed cardsMy identities are now portable across silos

Amex

MVM

H&M Sears Nike

Select & Present

Second Life

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Relationship cards build a connection

BestBuy

What Best Buy knows about me and what I’m willing to share with Best Buy.

Best of all, when I update information about me ALL of my relationships are instantly updated.

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How it works

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Higgins Service

Browser + Extension

Identity Agent

Projection (and protection) of identity attributes

• Authentication• Personalization• Selective disclosure• Projection of preference,

interests, and social values• Profile management, avatars

REI Employee

Amex

Second Life

Identity ProvidersHiggins Service

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Higgins is an interoperability framework

Higgins FrameworkHiggins Framework

Plug-insPlug-ins

Higgins Browser ExtensionHiggins Browser Extension

Eclipse RCP AppsEclipse RCP Apps

Identity ProvidersIdentity Providers

Apps and ServicesApps and Services

CardSpaceCardSpaceProtocol Providers implement protocols for interacting with Relying Parties

Protocol Providers implement protocols for interacting with Relying Parties

OpenIDOpenID

CardSpace Managed (WS-Trust)CardSpace Managed (WS-Trust)

RSS SSERSS SSE

I-Card Providers implement identity protocols and card types

I-Card Providers implement identity protocols and card types

CardSpace PersonalCardSpace Personal

SAMLSAML X509X509

Higgins RelationshipHiggins Relationship

KerberosKerberos

JNDI / LDAPJNDI / LDAP

Enterprise AppsEnterprise Apps

Token Providers implement different kinds of security tokens

Token Providers implement different kinds of security tokens

IdAS Context Providers connect to different identity data sources

IdAS Context Providers connect to different identity data sources

HTML FormsHTML Forms

UN/PSUN/PS IdemixIdemix

RDF/OWLRDF/OWL Active DirectoryActive Directory

Comms ClientsComms Clients

Relying PartiesRelying Parties

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Higgins delivers

A consistent user experience based on i-cards Any identity protocol Any token data type Any kind of identity data Any identity data source Any platform

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Getting a little more technical...

Interoperability requires a new abstraction

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Identity is about the linkages between multiple contexts

Interoperability is created when you can create links between digital subjects in different contexts.

i.e. bridges between them.

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Contexts and Digital Subjects

Digital Subjects are sets of attributes and relationships.

Context determines appropriateness of each attribute and data flow

Privacy policy must be defined in context

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This is you. (Just a set of links!)

Facebook Second LifeDept of Motor Vehicles

Social Security Administration

Other Digital Subjects

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Links are where the action is

Single sign on Cross contextual claim presentation

Federation Cross contextual digital subject linking

User-centricity The user is the bridge

Social Networks Links are relationships

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i-cards

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…you’re signed in.

(No password required)

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i-cards

Coming Soon !

Questions ????