Trust federation

Trust federations are part of the evolving Social Web that will bring a new layer of persistent identity and trusted data sharing to the Internet. XDI and other open standard identity and data sharing protocols can handle the challenges of technical interoperability for the Social Web, but the challenge of business and social interoperability requires a new type of cooperative association similar to a credit card association. Instead of banks, however, a trust federation is an alliance of i-brokers and their customers who agree to abide by a common set of agreements in the care and handling of customer data.

One of the first emerging trust federations is Identity Commons.

ee also

* Dataweb
* I-broker
* I-name
* I-number
* XRI
* XDI

External links

* [http://journal.planetwork.net/article.php?lab=reed0704&page=1 The Social Web: Building an Open Social Network with XDI]
* [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi OASIS XDI Technical Committee]
* [http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi OASIS XRI Technical Committee]
* [http://www.xdi.org XDI.ORG]
* [http://www.idcommons.net Identity Commons]