An Identity-Centric Internet: Identity in the Cloud, Identity as a Service and Other Delights

We express in this paper a position about the evolution of the high layers of the future Internet related to digital identity management. The digital identities are often wrongly considered as endpoints. We argue an Identity-Centric Internet consistent with the concepts of Identity in the Cloud and Identity as a Service. We give architectural notions and depict a logical identity proxy called an "Identity in the Cloud Agent". Keywords-Position on the future Internet, Identity-Centric Internet, Identity in the Cloud, Identity as a Service, IDaaS