Arnold brings over 34 years’ experience in architecture and design of international telecommunications and information interchange infrastructures and transformational issues to his role as Global Architect in the Sector Products of Capgemini Netherlands.

He is vice chair of the Semantic Interoperability work group of The Open Group.

Presentation

Case Study: Identity Management Interoperability in European Union

The proliferation of e-Services in most european countries has been favourable to the emergence of common  identity providers and national identity management infrastructures in these countries. The STORK project aims to interconnect all of these identity management infra-structures to form a Pan-European federated e-identity space. In this paper we show that due to two different identity concepts in use by the European countries, this objective is a far from trivial challenge.
Based on our analysis we present two scenario’s: homogeneous interoperability for countries with alike identity concepts and heterogeneous interoperability   for countries with different identity concepts. For the latter case we present three solution directions to overcome technical limitations and challenges. The STORK project is co-funded by the European Union and will deliver real solutions by implementing five demo projects.


Audience: Architects, Identity Management Experts, SOA, Semantics

Key takeaways:-
1. semantically incompatible identity concepts
2. application of layered interoperability architecture
3. interplay between politics and technology

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