IdMan was funded in 2004 by a grant of €197,246 from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under a Basic Research Grant, project number 04/BR/CS0692. The project began in October 2004, and will run at least until September 2007.
Today's networked applications use many ad hoc techniques to achieve the functionality they need from the network (abuse of cookies, DNS, HTTP redirection). Fundamentally, the basic IP infrastructure fails to meet many of the requirements of modern networked applications. The context for this project is an attempt to define a new network layer between networked applications and the underlying TCP/IP network. A central requirement of such a new network layer is knowing who users are, where they are, and their preferences for how the network and applications should behave. This project will analyse the identity management requirements for such a network, develop a prototype identity management infrastructure, and evaluate that infrastructure in the context of selected demonstrator applications.
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