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Versions
Version
Date
Description (Editor)
0.1
January 2005
INSEAD: Thierry Nabeth. Initial release
0.2
24 February 2005
ICPP: Martin Meints. (first version) Types of IMS with
respect to social Systems
7 April 2005
JRC: Sabine Delaitre. Ubiquitous Services, CC/PP and
UAProf
7 April 2005
TUD: Sandra Steinbrecher. Feedback + reference
Interoperability
11 April 2005
Univ. Reading: Mark Gasson. Biometrics perspective.
12 April 2005
TUD: Richard Cissée. vCards, LDAP
15 April 2005
VIP: Bernhard Anrig, Emmanuel Benoist. Identification
in
government
9 May 2005
VIP: Emmanuel Benoist. Review of the deliverable
9 May 2005
ICPP: Martin Meints & Marit Hansen. Review of the
deliverable
23 May 2005
Univ. Reading: Mark Gasson. Proof read of the
deliverable.
1.0
23 May 2005
INSEAD: Thierry Nabeth. Final version
2.0
30 September 2005
INSEAD: Thierry Nabeth. Glossary, global picture,
PKCS#9, etc.
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Foreword
FIDIS partners from various disciplines have contributed as authors to this document. The
following list names the main contributors for the chapters of this document:
Chapter
Contributor(s)
all
Thierry Nabeth (INSEAD)
Mark Gasson (Reading)
Categorising the
IMS; a non technical
perspective
Martin Meints (ICPP)
Directory systems
and standards
(vCard, LDAP, etc.)
Richard Cissée (TUD)
Interoperability
Sandra Steinbrecher (TUD)
Identity schemas in
ubiquitous (and
mobile computing)
Sabine Delaitre (JRC)
Biometrics & AmI
Mark Gasson (Reading)
Identity &
government
Bernhard Anrig and Emmanuel Benoist (VIP)
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................. 8
1
Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 9
1.1 Scope .......................................................................................................................... 9
1.2 Objective .................................................................................................................... 9
1.3
The content and structure of this document ............................................................. 10
2
The Management and the Representation of Identity in Information Systems: an
Overview ................................................................................................................................. 11
2.1
Categories of IMS, and their application in social systems ..................................... 11
2.2
Modelling the Person in Information Systems......................................................... 14
2.3
Acquisition of the Person’s Information (Profiling) ................................................ 16
3
The Categories of Attributes of the Person.................................................................. 20
3.1
The attributes of the person: a categorisation........................................................... 20
3.2 Identification ............................................................................................................ 20
3.3
Biological characteristics (biometrics, medical) ...................................................... 24
3.4 Location.................................................................................................................... 26
3.5 Assets
&
transactions ............................................................................................... 28
3.6
Citizenship,
justice ................................................................................................... 29
3.7 Preferences ............................................................................................................... 30
3.8 Competences ............................................................................................................ 32
3.9
Functions, position and roles.................................................................................... 33
3.10 Social
characteristics
(sociology)............................................................................. 34
3.11 Psychological
characteristics
(psychology) ............................................................. 35
3.12 Summary .................................................................................................................. 36
4
The Representation of the Person in Different Application Contexts, and the Use of
Standards ................................................................................................................................ 38
4.1
Identity in Different Application Contexts............................................................... 38
4.2
A Overview of Standards for the Representation of the Person .............................. 40
5
Summary and Future Work.......................................................................................... 42
5.1 Summary .................................................................................................................. 42
5.2 Future
work .............................................................................................................. 42
References ............................................................................................................................... 44
6
Annexes: An Overview of Standards for Representing Person’s Information ......... 45
6.1
Directories and Business Cards (LDAP, vCards, Active Directory,
Liberty Alliance
schemas, PKCS, etc.) ........................................................................................................... 45
6.2
IMS/LIP (Learner Information Packaging).............................................................. 51
6.3
HR-XML (xml for human resource management)................................................... 54
6.4
Justice with the Global Justice Extensible Markup (JXDM) ................................... 60