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After three years work in the Identity of Things discussion group, the analyses of various standards, projects and activities we would like to summarize our thoughts here. Find below a collections of questions that came across during our work, meetings, conferences and discussions.
Do we need a special identitfier or is there already an “Identifier" for the Internet of Things”?
Do we need a special identitfier or is there already an “Identifier" for the Internet of Things”?
There are many standards, protocols and solutions in the area of IoT. There is and most likely will be no single kind of identifier. Identifier mapping and discovery become important services of larger IoT deployments. Let's give an example: A street lamp might have a field bus address consisting of 2 bytes. It is connected with a gateway. Within the gateway the lamp is mapped to "lamp 123". A lamp management system can switch on and off "lamp123". Via a REST interface the lamp management system exposes the lamp for example as oneM2M "application entity". So other management systems can switch the lamp by sending messages to a specific oneM2M URL. In this example a thing (lamp) is identified with different identifiers that are maped to each other.
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[1] Ulrich Greveler, Benjamin Justus, Dennis Loehr. Multimedia Content Identification Through Smart Meter Power Usage Profiles. Computer Security Lab Münster University of Applied Sciences D-48565 Steinfurt, Germany. Published on Electronic Privacy Information Center epic.org https://epic.org/privacy/smartgrid/smart_meter.pdf
How to design a privacy ensured IoT system?
link to our IEEEP2413 activities tbd
What is Identity vs. Identifier ?
tbd
Is the hugh address pool of IPv6 a soltution for Identities in IoT?
tbd
What are key concepts for Identity of Things in Kantara Initiative?
User Managed Access (UMA): UMA is a profil on top of OAuth....tbd
Identity Relationship Management
User Consnet Receipts
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