What is the future of Identity Management?

As you might guess, there is no unique or trivial answer …
We are currently assisting to a fast acceleration of innovation in this space, consisting in the introduction of new technologies and solutions, standards and initiatives – which target people, their social interactions and organisations. Various material is available online with predictions of which identity management topics will be relevant in the short term – including some interesting blogs: for example, Eric Norlin’s Predictions for 2007 (http://blogs.zdnet.com/digitalID/?p=80) or Mark Dixon’s Identity Trends (http://blogs.sun.com/identity/entry/identity_trends_what_do_you) – just to mention a few.
However, what is going to happen in 10 years time? Here is my guess of key aspects that will shape the future:
User-centric Identity Management
Device-based Identity Management
Identity-capable Devices
Identity Management across multiple IT layers & heterogeneous domains
Federated Identity Management
Identity Assurance
Privacy Management
I am going to be posting entries covering these topics and my thoughts on their long-term impact … Stay tuned!