DIMDS: A Dynamic Identity Management and Discovery System

Next Generation Networks (NGN) advocating network convergence, face a series of important technical challenges, one of them is the management of diverse user identities. Existing solutions tackle only a small range of identity issues, often imposing modifications in established network protocols. We present a new identity management and discovery framework that does not impose modifications on existing network protocols as it binds together and manages all different types of identities while it is agnostic to naming and addressing formats.