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All the sessions have come to a close and now the group has gathered again for some concluding remarks. The floor has been opened up to anyone who has anything else to say in terms of what was accomplished and what people hope to continue to accomplish.

One thing that has been said is that bringing the ideas together has been a great, friendly experience. It sounds like a lot of people were able to get some additional vision on what they are already doing and some connections with people who can help further the world of Internet identity.

One of the questions that has been asked was what books would people recommend. Phil Windley has been recording the books that are being suggested and should be posting the titles on the IIW 2005 wiki in the near future.

An interesting comment was made during the closing session. Johannes Ernst mentioned that although we are here talking about identity and trust, one of two things are taking place:

1. We do not trust each other in what each person is doing, or
2. We really don’t know much of anything anyone here is really trying to do or is doing.

I have learned more than I’ll ever be able to remember. This conference has been an awesome experience for me. I plan on taking some of the ideas I heard these past two days and see how I can include some of these ideas in my own research. I have also lengthened my list of contacts that can help advance my research.

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I am sitting in one of the first break out sessions today and the topic is Light Weight Authentication (LWA). The current systems being discussed is SXIP, LID, and OpenID.

Chris Allen is showing the kind of service he wants to provide where LWA could be beneficial. Chris wants to be able to create an online text editor where multiple people can edit the text at the same time. He compares it to an online version of SubEthaEdit. He calls this application SynchroEdit.

Chris wants to be able to authenticate people against a list of people who are allowed to edit. The question he is posing to the group is how can he authenticate efficiently between the web server, sync server and sync client. How can this be done easily and efficiently and can LWA work? That is the question.

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Today at IIW 2005 everyone got together to decide the schedule. After some information sessions where everyone got into small groups to figure out what questions they want answered today, we created a list of sessions that would be held in order to discuss the things everyone wants to discuss.

I am interested to see how this works out. I figure some great group discussions will take place or it will turn into one large chaotic “my system is better than your system” session.

You can see what kind of sessions were held you can check out the matrix created on the IIW 2005 wiki.

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