There are two problem areas of the current Internet to be solved in Future Internet scenariossecurity and putting the user back in control despite the move to the Internet of things. With this in mind, we address problems associated with the diversifying of the Internet towards an Internet of Things, and with increased ways to be reachable, whether the user wants it or not, in the digital world. The paper presents two approaches to cope with the problem: The Identinet and a concept designated by the Digital Shadow. The paper presents an architecture based on these concepts.

This article briefly describes the EUfunded Daidalos project, which designs and develops a communications infrastructure for next-generation networks to enable personalized, context-aware, composite services to mobile users. The fundamental concepts rely on federation of operators who create a pervasive environment for service provisioning, on integrated mobility, security, virtual identity for users, and resource management. The project validates concepts by means of specification, implementation, and integration in a large research testbed.

Identity Management has so far been a field mainly applications and Web focused. This paper describes a novel approach to cross layer identity management that extends digital identities to the network, the virtual identity (VID) framework. The VID framework provides strong privacy to the user, while easily supporting personalization crossservice providers. While other identity management solutions are tailored to one specific application and/or protocol domain, the proposed framework extends the use of one's digital identity to all aspects of the network and services architecture. It is also the first to consider legal constrains, such as ownership of data and legal intercept issues, in such a broad scope. One major aspect reported here is the relevance for operators.

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