Solving My Identity Crisis
08-16, 18:00–18:50 (US/Eastern), Marillac Auditorium

Traditionally, Internet accounts are controlled by the service providing them. There is no ‘number portability’ for email addresses. Switching costs discourage service changes. Recently, Bluesky has disrupted this model and 32 million users now use account names based on the Internet identity infrastructure, DNS - names that users can register and control directly through DNS handle providers.
This presentation will describe three standards proposals extending this approach. @nywhere extends the authentication approach to allow DNS handle accounts to be used at any Internet resource, not just those running ATprotocol. @nyone combines the DNS handle approach with JSContact to provide account portability and secure exchange of credentials for end-to-end secure communication. @nything allows network connected devices to become true Internet things with an Internet DNS name, WebPKI credentials, and using @nywhere and @nyone to support access control.

Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker has 30 years experience in designing web and identity infrastructures. His design credits include seminal contributions to HTTP/1.0, SAML/1.0, and the architecture of the WebPKI. His current research focus is developing personal privacy technologies using threshold key infrastructure.

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