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Trust and Identity
The Internet Society’s Trust and Identity initiative rec-
ognizes that in order to be trusted, the Internet must
provide channels for secure, reliable, private, com-
munication between entities, which can be clearly
authenticated in a mutually understood manner. The
mechanisms that provide this level of assurance must
support both the end-to-end nature of Internet archi-
tecture and reasonable means for entities to manage
and protect their own identity details.
A trusted Internet takes into account security, trans-
action protection, and identity assertion and manage-
ment. Given the network dependence on unique
numbers and the escalating amount of geolocation
data being gathered, the privacy implications of the
current Internet represent a significant and growing
concern. Trust must be a primary design element at
every layer of the architecture, and in some cases,
existing elements may need to be redesigned or
improved to meet emerging requirements.
2008 Programmes
The Trust and Identity initiative focuses on the follow-
ing major research programmes.
Architecture and Trust
This research programme investigates the implemen-
tation of open-trust mechanisms throughout the full
cycle of Internet research, standardisation, develop-
ment, and deployment.
Current Problems and Solutions and Trust
This research programme investigates the mitigation
of the social, policy, and economic factors thatmay hinder development and deployment for trust-
enabling technologies.
Identity and Trust
This research programme investigates the elevation
of identity to a core issue in network research and
standards development.
ISOC is taking a lead role in reviewing the current
Internet architecture and the model of Internet de-
velopment and deployment. This includes active
engagement with participants within the traditional
ISOC sphere, as well as with the research, enterprise,
and end-user communities. We offer the kind of sup-port for research that enhances and facilitates trust
and collaboration with the standards community and
that advances the most interesting outcomes of that
research.
ISOC is reaching out to the businesses and end users
that rely on the Internet to exchange sensitive data.
Their needs and concerns inform both our baseline
research agendas and ongoing standards and devel-
opment work.
ISOC continues to support the advancement of current
technical solutions and best practices through our
existing programmes.
The Internet Society
promotes work that
improves trust in the
Internet by developing
secure, reliable, and
private communication
channels that can be
clearly authenticated
in mutually
understood ways.
Trust and Identity Initiative
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