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Daily Overview

Session

Tutorial 1: Full Day Tutorial: Identity Online: Shaping governance through digital identifiers

Time:

Thursday, 24/Sept/2026:

9:00am - 5:00pm

Moderator: Milton Mueller, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session Chair: Karim Farhat, The Internet Governance Project

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Presentations

Identity Online: Shaping governance through digital identifiers

Milton Mueller¹, Karim Farhat¹, Brenden Kuerbis¹, Karl Grindal², Vagisha Srivastava¹, Johannes Sedlmeir³

1: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: University of New Hampshire; 3: University of Muenster

This TPRC Workshop focuses on digital identifiers and their role in cyberspace governance. The Internet and proliferation of digital devices have opened up vast new spaces for social interaction, creating many new and unique problems related to identification. Am I talking to a human or a bot? How can we control minors’ access to adult content? What authority anchors trust in a global PKI?

We are developing an analytical framework for identity systems and wish to socialize it at this tutorial. We will apply ths framework to identifier regimes for the Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) for domain names, routing, and websites; the newly developing system of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs); efforts to establish a system of content provenance identifiers (C2PA); and legally-imposed implementations of age verification. We also apply our framework to policy and technical discussions around identifier systems that would allow us to reliably differentiate humans from AI agents in the online environment.

The event will be led by panelists and speakers from Georgia Tech's Internet Governance Project and collaborators from the University of Munster and the University of New Hampshire. It will also include discussants from Better Identity Coalition, NTIA, Digital Self Labs and others.

Sessions will include: 1. Identifiers and Governance: An analytical framework; 2. PKI and the Governance of Trust on the Web; 3, RPKI and trust in routing; 4. Identifiers and Content Control: Age Verification and Content Provenance; 5. Identifiers, Payments and Digital Money; 6. Who’s an AI agent and who’s a human?