Community i-names

Members are the lifeblood of a community—be it an NGO, a school, a church, a sports league, an industry association, or even a local or national government. To participate online, every community member needs an identity.

And today, that is a problem for your members.

Making Identity Simpler, Making Connections Stronger

For you, it means creating a new login, password, and profile for each member. For your members, it means remembering and managing yet another online identity. For both of you, administering and securing this data creates more work—work that could be directed instead toward achieving your community's shared purpose.

There is a better way. With i-names and i-services, based on the new XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) open standards from OASIS, you can:

• Provide safe, privacy-protected cross-community identifiers that won't "go stale" or be subject to spam like email addresses. Learn more about i-name Formats.
• Offer a single sign-on that enables your members to navigate easily and painlessly between various community projects, Web sites, and cooperating partner sites. Learn more about the i-name Single Sign-On Service.
• Create simple Web contact pages that make it easy for community members, volunteers, employees, and project leaders to find each other and interact, all while maintaining strong privacy. Learn more about the Contact Service.
• Maintain intuitive, persistent links to common community functions such as accounts, calendars, newsletters, membership renewal, donations, and volunteer listings—links that can keep working even after your Web site(s) are renamed and reorganized. Learn more about the Forwarding Service.
• Consolidate contacts into a unified address book that dramatically simplifies the task of maintaining secure, private, current contact information. Learn more about the soon-to-be-available Unified Address Book Service.

Strong History, Stronger Future

The XRI specifications that are the foundation for i-names were developed by major international corporations including Visa International, Boeing, AMD, and Nomura Research Institute. These specifications were designed to solve key challenges in Internet identification and to create an open platform for interoperable identity services.

The global i-name registries are governed by XDI.org, an international non-profit public trust organization, and administered by NeuStar, the world's leading provider of communications interoperability services.

i-names and i-services are available from a growing international network of XDI.org-accredited i-brokers (the i-name equivalent of an ISP).

Are you ready to make identity a source of convenience and strength for your community? Get your community started with i-names here.