Peter F. Drucker, a creative thinker who is considered to be the first Management Consultant in the previous century once said; "The best way to predict the future is to create it."

 

So we invited TNO to combine their knowledge and enthusiasm with customers and colleagues of PortingXS to debate and think of future developments and their impact. Personally I find the conclusions a surprise, they offer both a real challenge as well as a tremendous opportunity for the telecommunication operators.

 

This paper gives a glance into a future in the area of addressing and digital identities. It takes a broad end-user perspective, showing the context in which people use these addresses; and digital identities. People do not so much use addresses, they use communication services offered by service providers. People not only use telephony services but increasingly rely on various non-standardized Internet communication services....