ghosts of the interscaler directory at #cat10; let's do it!

Originally posted on identitysander on WordPress: ghosts of the interscaler directory at #cat10; let's do it!. This Ghost site is now the canonical home for this material. But you should only go to see it there if you want a laugh about how silly websites looked then. It's a time capsule now.

There were a lot of points at Catalyst 2010 where Kim Cameron's Interscaler, Federated Directory and Identity Schema came up in my mind, though went unmentioned by the speakers.  I know I wasn't alone, either.  It was there like a ghost in every discussion.  When Anil John spoke about Background Attribute Exchange (BAE), one of the first questions was about how to ensure schemas would be in sync.  When Nishant Kaushik spoke about federated provisioning, again questions had everyone talking about how directories would be able to rely on attributes being "exchangeable" across domains.  And when the folks from GM gave their talk the second or third question was about how they decided what attributes would be included in their avatar identities and which would not.

How does this move forward?  I get dizzy when I look at all the standards bodies around identity.  I've got a lot of energy to offer around this and don't know where to push it.  It's not about a product or a vendor.  I'd like to see this be an industry thing that everyone can benefit from.