We in the identity industry are very good at inventing new verticals for products, but terrible at describing the contexts that underpin our ability to describe and evaluate actors within IAM systems.  Standards work in the IETF seeks to fix this oversight: join Pamela Dingle as she covers the different ways in which metadata discovery, identifiers for businesses and agents,  authorization semantics, and longstanding concepts like authentication context may converge over time to help us better describe the IAM world around us.