Global Identity and Reachability Framework for Interoperable P2P Communication Services

Advancements in web real time technologies are revolutionizing the way communication is taking place, where new emerging web services are confronting the traditional Telco operated communication services. This has led to the development of new web-centric service architecture that will allow service providers to provide their communication services globally. This architecture uses web based communication techniques that enables endpoints to become a mesh of live users, who can communicate in a peer-to-peer fashion. To distinguish such a service from current ‘best effort Internet', it must be supported by appropriate governance, trust and security features. This distributed architecture presents new issues regarding authentication of non-service-bound user identities, finding users reachable addresses and providing a trustworthy communication environment. To provide these support services this paper introduces four different components namely: Identity Management, Policy & Governance, Graph connector and Directory services.