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The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is evolving and early solutions are now being implemented at a rapid pace. There are implementations in areas like logistics, farming, manufacturing, heavy industry, automotive, home automation and many others. Restrictions and issues arise as we try to connect solutions of different vendors and communities each which support different standards. From a business point of view the IoT enables a plethora of new opportunities, use cases and scenarios. From a technical point of view the IoT consists of devices, sensors, actuators, or simply objects connected to services in the Internet at a scale that is hard to quantify. Today, devices and sensors speak a lot of different network protocols and most do not communicate over he the web standard HTTP. This is a leading cause as to why application development in the IoT is so hard to implement, a lack of usable application integration layers. The next logical step is to use common web technologies for the IoT, including Identity and Access Management as one of the most important common principles and technologies. Apart from adapting communication protocols an overarching identity framework is crucial for a growing IoT as it is crucial to know what devices are interacting and on who's behalf they are operating. Today we have many separate solutions and niche standards and there is no overall framework for how to recognize and manage identities across different solutions. This discussion group called “IDentities of Things” within the Kantara Initiative is formed to discuss the challenges and identify current practices and future opportunities requiring additional work.
After three years work in the this Identity of Things discussion groupDiscussion 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.
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What are the challenges of Identiy Identity in the Internet of Things?
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Is the hugh huge address pool of IPv6 a soltution solution for Identities in IoT?
A thing is not always just one thing. Can a thing be composed of other things?
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