Closing Feb 2007 Meeting Summary
From ITUwiki
Key problem areas:
- Advertisement of Attributes
- Discovery of Attributes
- Insertion of strongly authenticated Attributes (MSISDN, E.164 telephone number, address, name, billing address)
Operator can add value in these spaces:
- Geographic Location Attribute Assertion (cell ID, Vienna, x Street)
- Contact Identifier/s Attribute Assertion
- Identity Anchorage (MSISDN on SIM card, telephone number,IMS HSS identities)
- Deriving User's Context (home, work)
- Deriving User's Task (from handset velocity Etc.)
- Social Relationship ("buddy list") Storage/Advertisement
General:
- social networking applications are valuable space to be engineered towards
- phone is a social networking tool
- the humble ordinary phone is currently limited in social networking.
- Discovery of others is not included. (this is the problem)
- phone is a social networking tool
- identity anchorage is valuable
- operators have opportunity to be identity anchor
- operators/vendors have a role to play in the emerging social networking space
- The area of reputation is of value
- reputation is contextual
- identity is contextual
