One of the first Internet related cartoons I saw back in the day was in the New Yorker. One dog sitting at a keyboard explains to another dog: “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog. Apropos of that comic is the logo for the Internet Identity Workshop.

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on ‘user-centric identity’ and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with. We also work on trying to address social and legal issues that arise with these new tools.  This conference we are going to also focus some attention on what are business models are that can make this ecology of web services thrive.

(Via BoingBoing.)