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A new theory of digital identity - Risk - SC Magazine Australia

The March 14, 2012, edition of SC Magazine, Australian Edition, includes Part B of a two part series on “A New Theory of Digital Identity.”  Part A was entitled “Federated Identity: Easier said than done.”  Part B is entitled, “The Ecology and Natural History of Digital Identity,” and includes this view of the U.S. National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace:

Truthfully, the ecosystem anticipated by The Laws of Identity and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC; see http://www.nist.gov/nstic) is an elaborate IT architecture with predefined and often novel roles for all players. At the time of writing, NSTIC is far from complete, with many anticipating that special new legislation will be needed to allocate liability when using privately issued identities. Nobody yet knows if the system is sustainable by the private sector. The prefix “eco” is optimistic.

I think that is correct.

The entire article can be read at: A new theory of digital identity - Risk - SC Magazine Australia - Secure Business Intelligence .

NSTIC commits $2.5 million to build governance body | ZDNet

ZDNet reports on March 14, 2012, that the National Institute of Standards of Technology is offering grant money “to establish an independent steering committee led by the private sector that works in conjunction with the federal government to support” the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, quoting  Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser for identity management at NIST and the head of NSTIC Program Office.  According to the ZDNet:

The government’s national identity strategy is committing up to $2.5 million over the next two years to fund an organization that will establish and oversee a steering committee that is the linchpin to securing private- sector participation in its plan.

The full article from ZDNet can be found at: NSTIC commits $2.5 million to build governance body | ZDNet . The NIST’s “RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ESTABLISHING AN IDENTITY ECOSYSTEM  GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE,” dated February of 2012, are available in PDF format at http://www.nist.gov/nstic/2012-nstic-governance-recs.pdf .